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From: waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (walter jeffries)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Name-changing and "identity"
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 22:59:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 22:59:02 1985
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A personal note:
    My mother uses two names and all of us in the family find it rather fun!
First a little history...  Both of my parents are family physicians and they
share a practice.  When my parents married they followed the traditional route
and we all have my father's families name, offically.  But as my parents are
both in the same office, it would get rather confusing if they were both called
Dr. Jeffries, so... they both kept their maiden names for business purposes
resulting in Dr. Arnold and Dr. Jeffries.  This saves the confusion of asking,
"Yes, I understand you want to speak with Dr. Jeffries, but which one, the Lady
Doctor or the Man Doctor."  They've found that this works very well for their
situation.  The fun part is that we all use the two names somewhat interchange-
ably, especially when traveling. Sometimes we're all the Jeffries, and sometimes
we're all the Arnolds.  We kids have had alot of fun with this in the past...
   The purpose of this was to present a situation where a family went by two
names (Our mailbox says Arnold & Jeffries, my college application refered to my
parents as Jeanne Arnold and Peter Jeffries, etc...)  Not having all the family
under one name has not weakened our family ties, maybe it has even stregthened
them as it fit our humor...  By the way, in this age of short lived marriages 
they are still verymuchtogether. (they recently had their silver anniversary.)

                 Enough rambling....
                   Cheers!  8-)

                 -Walter.
 
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