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I tried to find one when I was a kid and going through the usual I-hate-my-stupid-name phase. You'd think that even at a young age I could have found something, but my mind went blank instead, and the only name I could think of was Pauline, which I didn't even like! Now, I think I could have comfortably been Alison, but then I'd have had to marry someone else, or nobody: DH's stepmother had a very difficult sister named Alison who put him right off that name and all its variations. My father wanted me to be Sarah Anne after his mother, but my mother stayed with Anne as a mn and found me a much better fn. But, if they'd thought of it, I could have been Sally and I think that might have worked.