Anyone have a suggestion for a non-gender specific pronoun?

Anyone have a suggestion for a non-gender specific pronoun?
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I like to have ‘ze’ in place of ‘she/he’ and ‘hir’ in place of ‘her/his’ – that’s how I want people to refer to me.
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