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You must use Valerie. I insist. I will stomp my feet and pout. You do not know how much this particular combination has made me really like Elizabeth. Rebecca and Abigail and Jo and to a lesser extent Joanna turn the combo into something very pedestrian and not amazingly wonderful.

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I am less passionate about this issue. I'd like to see an Elizabeth "go by" Elizabeth but be occasionally called Bess or Beth or Liz, in that order. If she went by Elizabeth though she could choose whatever nickname she wanted.