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It always makes me think of a young woman my sister knew in college, whose name was Petra but who was called Peach. Peach was assigned to a room with my sister and her other roommate and they hadn't known her previously. My sister used to ridicule Peach a lot, what she said and what she did. (Not to her face.) So to me it has a comical air.

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As a teenager, I occasionally babysat for a neighborhood woman whose name was Peach, although I called her Mrs. B------. I thought the name was silly then, so I guess it's not solely my sister's roommate that makes the name comical.