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Whenever I see Hester my mind automatically finishes it with "the molester", like the character from John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. (For those of you who haven't read it, there's a character in it named Hester who later goes on to become a rock star under the stage name Hester the Molester). It has some characteristics that I like, but that particular association is too strong for me to really warm to the name.