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I bought a purebred (Siamese) cat once who had to have an L name. Her face was delightfully wicked, with evil, slanting eyes and I wanted her name to fit that ... but with an L? The best I could come up with was Lucinda, to be known as Cindy, Cin (or Sin) for short. She was a very pleasant little cat, not at all evil, and the cuteness of Cindy suited her.

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But, the down side for me was a very beautiful woman I knew, the eldest of four sisters. They were all known by their full names except the third one: she was Lucinda, and was the only one who was not beautiful: no worse than plain, but compared to the rest, plain wasn't good. And the eldest sister, smiling pleasantly, explained that she was known as Cindy "because we couldn't call her Lucy" - which they obviously considered pretty, dainty, uber-feminine ... I felt quite ill.