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Letter: By the ...

Published 24 October 1998

From Larry Curley

Now that nominative determinism is exhausted, could we consider people who are attracted to each other by their names? For example, one of my sisters married a Mr Short.

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

Issue no. 2157 published 24 October 1998

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