Definitions
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- proper noun A female
given name
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aletta is a composite of all the women I grew up around, like my mother, who raised children on their own.
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Tough, self-effacing Aletta is an appealing heroine, and Dunbar's careful and understated writing keeps her novel from becoming a generic story of small-town female grit ....
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But when a woman touches her hand in sympathy, Aletta is completely unsettled.
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How much of your own history and personality went into Aletta, her family, and friends?
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Out of necessity, Aletta, along with her loyal and wacky group of friends, begins a search for the story of this woman, a Native American from New Mexico, and this search takes her on a journey of self-discovery.
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Aletta has a surprise visit from an unknown relative who reveals an ancestor in her family who was said to have the same abilities as Aletta.
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It is this gift that inspired me to write about Aletta.
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This consisted almost exclusively of inner thoughts and feelings of all of the characters, but mainly of Aletta.
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Aletta overcoming self-doubt and judgment that result from being different.
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I am more interested in an individual, like Aletta, who has something about her that creates such fear and prejudice from those around her, and in how she deals with it.
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