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Re: Elizabeth or Celeste?
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Definitely Elizabeth, though perhaps better as a mn. I've only known one Celeste, who loathed her name with a passion, found it revoltingly sentimental, and insisted on being called Sally. I find it over-ambitious, an echo of Babar and the Queen of the Elephants, and the name of a friend's kitten when we were about six and reading Babar; the kitten soon became known as Kitty.

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