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   William Vetter to All   
   Re: What is in a name?   
   26 Sep 14 19:46:38   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   > J.Pascal   wrote:   
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   > > Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
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   > >> J.Pascal  wrote:   
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   > >>> Otherwise I suppose a descriptive term would work... Have her think   
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   > >>> "tall dark and handsome" think "Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome" call him   
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   > >>> "Handsome" or "Mr. Handsome."   
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   > >> Mr.  Incredibly Average in Every Way?   
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   > >> Mr. You Look So Different Everytime I See You That It Takes Me   
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   > >> Forever to Be Certain It's Really You?   
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   > > I feel your pain. :)   
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   > > Does she have a classical education?  Might there be a "popular   
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   > > culture" everyman figure or a god that is known to disguise himself   
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   > > or herself to interact with normal people to test them?  Folk tales   
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   > > where a beggar is really a magical being that rewards the   
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   > > kindhearted?   
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   Maybe there is some figure in Grimm's Fairy Tales.  Maybe that's simplest.   
      
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