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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Changing names
Message-ID: <2750@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 16:59:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 30 16:59:05 1986
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Reply-To: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
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In article <730@ur-tut.UUCP> huds@ur-tut.UUCP (Andrew Hudson) writes:
>A few years ago when my sister got married she decided neither to take
>her spouse's last name nor keep her own but to hyphenate the two.
>	[...]
>keep the lineage alive!  So now she goes by Hudson-Hankins.
>We kid her about being a Hudhank, or a Hudkin, or a Hankson but you

That always struck me a short-sighted.  My spouse and I could have become
Troublefield-Gordons, then the children from the families could marry to
form Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins.  In the meantime, the offspring of
the Barton-Smiths and Kelsey_Gonzales (former co-workers) could have married,
and eventually, the 
Troublefield-Gordon-Hudson-Hankins-Kelsey-Gonzales-Barton-Smith family's 
children could look forward to seeing THEIR grandchildren's names ...

If you aren't both comfortable with one of the existing names, pick a new
one, don't combine the existing ones.

FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc.
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