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I like Gretchen. It makes me think of a classmate I had in high school, who was a neat, softspoken, cool person. Also she was young and cute at the time. So Gretchen seems cool, young and cute in my mind (Rachael / Rachel also seems young and cute and friendly to me, for the same reasons). It's not even ugly at all ... I guess I can see how the sound of it is a little prickly, but to me it's prickly in a simpatico way, not a grumpy repellent way. It's prickly the way Rebecca and Bridget are prickly. Gretchen absolutely buries Margaret in the coolness department, btw. Margaret seems like a hag next to Gretchen.

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Gretchen Demetria, Gretchen Lark
Real life I might name her sister Ada or Claudia, brother Conrad.
Fictional sister might be Annika, Kristin, Katia, Janine. Brother - I dunno, Gilbert, Daniel?

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- mirfak