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Kavya
Kavya Named for poetry itself, Kavya carries the expectation of a heightened sensitivity to language, beauty, and feeling. Characters with this name are often depicted as artists or highly literate individuals whose inner lives are more vivid than ordinary experience — women for whom the world is always slightly larger and stranger than it appears to others.
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