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Myrl
Myrl Myrl is a name of exceptional vintage rarity — so uncommon today that a character bearing it is immediately distinguished as someone with deep roots in a particular American place and time. It suits protagonists in historical Southern or rural fiction for whom the name itself is a document of family and community history, carrying a world in four letters.
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