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Something about this name just doesn't jive with me. I like Maura and I like Colleen, so I should like Maureen, right? Ah, but not so...I guess I just don't like those two sounds together. All I see is a tight-panted, frazzled red-headed, over-make-upped woman pinching a little girl's cheeks so hard the poor child is holding back tears. The woman's face is unsettlingly close to the girl's as she nasally croons, "Maur-eeeeeeeeenn...! Maur-eeeeeeeeenn...!"

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Ho-hum. I think it's worth mentioning that, in this mental image, it's the little girl who bears the name Maureen, not the creeper woman. But the woman is completely obscuring the girl's face and she won't let go. She's like a leech, stuck on Maureen. Perhaps forever, unless someone comes along and pries her off with a crowbar.