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Even those who've known me for ages still struggle with its spelling. Just look at my Christmas cards, the spelling variations I get is endless: Marie Lou, Mary Lou, Mari-Lou, Marlou and Marylou.

Then there are others ...
From the very forgetful, Marianne (Oy!)
From the keyboard happy, Marilous
From the hard-of-seeing, Marilon
And the worst blunder of all: Marilour! Say whaaat??? And this appeared on a plane ticket! Eeeee!!! Just imagine the trouble I had to go through when checking in at the airport.

Now for the pronunciation … it's a bit of a frustrating experience. Oh! Why didn't my parents just named me Rose? After many years of correcting people,
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