I use the name Firstname Brooks Lastname, as I took my grandfathers middle name as my middle name. So many people who knew me as Firstname Lastname think I am married even though it is not hyphenated.
Also, a Facebook college friend got married right out of college, had a baby and divorced. She recently remarried, and for the ease of the child has a hyphenate lastname of her first husband's last name and her current husband's last name. Which made it confusing for me to place her, since I knew her as her maiden name AND someone else in college had her firstname and her first husband's lastname.
My cousin has a hyphenated last name, because her daughter has her maiden name and her son has her husband's name, and she didn't want to exclude either of them, which I think is nice.
I think of hyphenated names and I think of my sister's best friend's mother, Mrs Moyston-Cumming. Her daughter didn't take the hyphenated name.
My thing gets more confusing because I have my mom's last name. She was never married, is not Italian, and her middle name is McClellan, which makes her sound like a hyphenate. I am Italian-American and self identify as such, but don't use the Italian family name. And people who look at me tend to think Italian or Jewish, depending on their own ancestry. My mom was also one of the only "white" girls growing up in an Italian American neighborhood-- which fills me with fascination as of course Italian is considered white nowadays, but clearly not in my mom's mind in the 40's - 60's when she was growing up. Also, she hung out at so many neighborhood Italian houses that she is practically Italian American-- she even swears in Italian and has the "way to much food for guests because we could possibly run out" thing down! And strangely when they moved to the "country" they moved to a country town which was predominately (at the time of me growing up) Italian American/Catholic.
It's Leverage day! Only two more hours!
I'm incredibly bored.
Well, YEAH.
But the mother did! Even my own mother isn't that...unaware. I can't imagine.
Did someone post about these? Nifty commemorative inauguration DC Metro cards:
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already going for $25 on ebay.
A friend and her husband changed both of their last names to a hyphenated combination, as both really loved both names. So they are something like Tucci-Flores now. Apparently, some of the husband's crew in the AF gave him some crap, but he was in a particularly chauvinistic group.
A facebook high school peer...I have NO IDEA where her lastname comes from. Apparently she changed it to her birthname (she was adopted,) got married, got divorced, had a kid, may be married again...I have no idea how many last names she has or has not had or which the current comes from.
