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Same here, and I’ve only ever seen mar-LAY-na in an Asimov book. It’s always mar-LEEN around here, and it’s super dated and “country”, like all the other -leen/-lene names. I would expect a Marlene to be a large, rude, heavily-wrinkled woman in too much makeup and a leopard-print coat, taking huge draws on a cigarette so that the ash gets impossibly long, and then stubbing it anywhere she feels like it. I would NOT find it refreshing on a young girl.