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Bronislawa
Bronislawa Bronisława is a name of old-fashioned Polish dignity — the warrior-glory compound root gives it strength, while the Catholic tradition of its bearer gives it spiritual depth. In contemporary Polish fiction it tends to appear on older characters, women of a generation who lived through the Second World War and communist Poland, often depicted as formidably resilient.
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