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"But mom," Cruz said, "If you think about it, there are Hazels and Guses all over the world right now. Their parents are dealing with loss. And it's all because of cancer."

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2014

There were so many Jacks she had known, and he had known so many Hazels.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

But all the Hazels that ever would be would have Jack in them, somewhere.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

When they were about fifty yards from the base, a thunderclap rattled Hazels bones, and a curtain of ice that would have covered Camp Jupiter calved away and fell toward them.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

The sale of their few possessions put a sovereign or so into the pocket of each, and thus the sisters parted; the lovely Myra to Mrs. Fisher's, and Lettice, by railway, to the Hazels.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various