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Yahya
Yahya Yahya carries the quality of the voice in the wilderness — the ascetic herald who lives intensely at the margins of society, whose message is urgent and often uncomfortable, and who prepares the way for something larger than himself. Characters named Yahya tend to be intense, austere, and possessed of a visionary clarity that makes them both compelling and difficult.
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