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Milan
Milan Through Milan Kundera — author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being — the name has acquired a global literary profile associated with philosophical depth, erotic melancholy, and the specifically Central European experience of living under totalitarianism and in exile. A character named Milan carries these associations of thoughtful complexity and cultural richness.
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