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Re: Carol?
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I'm sorry to be blunt, but I think it's hideous. However, I know that's because, to me, it is about as dated and unfashionable as it can be, and I associate it with the pleasant but offensively dressed, puff-banged school secretaries of my youth. My own name is Caroline, and I like it. So it must really be the associations that turn me off to it rather than the sound. (I can be rather, uh, clumsy and lumbering. In my twenties, I had a job at a coffee shop where I would regularly knock stuff over, drop things, spill milk, etc, and one of my co-workers came to affectionately bellow, "uh oh, Carol's coming, watch out!" when I'd have a clumsy day. There's just something about the name Carol that seems graceless.)
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For me, Cheryl and Shelley are the names of pleasant but offensively dressed puff-banged school secretaries! I don't understand how I grew up with such a dearth of Carols.
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