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It's an interesting combo. I don't hate it, but it feels a bit off to me - I guess because it seems sorta Catholic, like the way Mary Frances or something is, but Jules feels nicknamey. So it's kind of nicknamey and bumpkin-y as well, but in an unexpected way. It's less like Mary Lou than, say, Mary Pam or Mary Jenn. There's also the fact that Jules is a male french name, but it's not Marie Jules, it's Mary Jules. It's mixed up. This feels like the kind of name my family would have picked 100 years ago, when they were trying to shed their Frenchness and become plain ol' Canadian but they weren't quite sure how, so they ended up with names like Frank Pierre and Marie Joan.

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Mary Jules is pretty cute, I like it. It sounds nice.