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Linda
Linda Linda is anchored in mid-20th-century America — it is the name of mothers, practical women, and dependable neighbours; a name that grounds fiction in the solid reality of everyday life. Used on a protagonist it signals a certain unpretentious competence and suggests a character whose story might be told with quiet realism and warmth. Its retro quality is now nostalgically appealing.
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