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I had a boss once named Esperance. She was unmarried, middle-aged and made a point of being tough at all times. Her father had been, I think, the first principal of the local teacher-training college, and one of its residences for female students was Esperance House, after her. She never had a nickname that I ever heard or heard of.

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I prefer Esperance to Hope, but not nearly enough to consider using it.