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Soraya
Soraya Soraya carries the cold, distant, jeweled beauty of a star cluster — a name for characters of striking, multi-faceted beauty who are admired from afar, whose inner lives are as vast and complex as the night sky they are named for. Characters named Soraya often project a regal inaccessibility that draws others in rather than repelling them.
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