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From: marla@lucerne.Eng.Sun.COM (Marla Parker)
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Subject: Re: Name Change After Marriage
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Date: 24 Aug 90 16:45:50 GMT
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In article <23824@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> llama@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joe Francis) writes:
>their name.  A friend of mine claims to be looking foward to 
>changing her name when married - she simply doesn't like her present
>(last) name (and yes, she is considering changing it anyway, without
>marriage).

This is exactly what I did.  Changing your name out of the blue just
because you don't like it takes a bit of courage and more energy than
it was worth to me.  I never liked my old last name - Wilcox - and I
welcomed marriage to someone with what I consider a good last name -
Parker - as an easy way to get a better last name.  If he'd been
named Frankdoddle or something that I found worse than Wilcox, I
would have kept Wilcox.  I know its a good old English name, but
I just never liked the sound of it.  


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