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Santo
Santo Santo carries the weight of Latin sanctity — a name that in Roman Catholic culture is both a title and a vocation, implying that the bearer has been set apart from the ordinary. In Southern Italian tradition, giving a child this name was an act of spiritual aspiration, placing the child under divine protection. A character named Santo inhabits an interesting tension between the sacred expectations of the name and the fallible reality of human nature.
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Paula
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Tristano
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