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"ref": "1971, Hugh Hood, The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press, published 1971, page 23:",
"text": "\"Sandra, that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is Sandra. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl Sandra for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star Sandra, or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name.\"",
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"ref": "2012 March 7, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, “Women's Access to Health Care”, in Congressional Record, page H1218:",
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