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I adored this name when I was growing up. Then the show "Clarissa Explains It All" came along and kind of ruined it for me. (Many of you here are too young to remember that show. It was on Nickelodeon and starred Melissa Joan Hart, who later played "Sabrina the Teenage Witch") In elementary school, I became enamoured of Clarissa "Clara" Barton, who started the Red Cross. When I'd play "Little House on the Prairie" with friends (we'd pretend we lived in the 'olden days', LOL), my name was always Clarissa nn Clara. I don't dislike Clarissa now, it's just a bit too frilly for me, though I do prefer it to Clarice / Clarisse. I much prefer Clara on its own, though.

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~Heather~
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix