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Eden
Eden Named for paradise, Eden is a character who embodies an ideal of pure, uncomplicated delight — a quality that places her both before and after loss, at once innocent and longed-for. In fiction characters named Eden often carry a bittersweet quality: their name promises an impossible completeness that their actual lives, in their ordinary complexity, both gesture toward and fail to fully achieve.
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