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Did you fix the problem with the "María" name? (At least here in Argentina) it's very very common, so most Marías don't use it. So

* María Laura Pérez

* Ma. Laura Pérez

* Laura Pérez

may be the same person. Once I learned that a gal was call "María" like 10 years after knowing her. She prefers to be call by her second name.

I know a guy that had to deduplicate the retirements registry of each province to make a national one, and he has a lot of corner cases that they had to use.

Anyway, sad to read the list has not too many duplications. :(

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