Just a minor change in the works here, but I'm gathering the paperwork to change my middle name to my wife's maiden name. Part of that is so we'll match -- but the other part of it is that it's a last eff-you to my Dad (our family tends to follow the ethnic tradition that you get your father's name as your middle name). If I were
really mad at the guy -- like this --
-- I suppose I'd ditch my surname as well, but that's too much trouble, and also indicts the whole lineage, which (despite the generational nature of this whole thing) can't really be blamed for my FoO issues....
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