It's really weird that you dreamed about Hawthorne, because I was thinking about early American writers this morning ..
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Walt Whitman,
Henry David Thoreau, D.H.
Lawrence, and ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (and more) ... and I was going to make a poll with these names, but decided to give it more thought. No joke.
I like your two names! I'm not sure if they quite go together (imo), but I like them both a lot separately (though I do think
Alaric sounds like a bit like allergic at times).
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