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Carol Jamison Is the Name of Carol Evans
Carol Jamison is the namesake of Carol Evans. Could be either or they both just happen to have the same name. So what people are saying here, 60%, is that Carol Jamison is an older person, say, had the name first and they are the namesake. And when a layman's linguist did a poll, it ran 35% to 40% between these two answers.
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