Re: OT-now Ms. Mrs./married names

Hello David!!  You're cracking me up by the way.
(other women picked up on it)
LOL  LOL

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: David Franzman <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:44:49 -0800

>OH MY GOD CHRIS ARE YOU A WOMAN???  I had no idea!  All this time I thought
>you were a guy.  Well, not that it's a problem...I mean...I just
>thought...sheesh!  Boy it's a good thing I didn't send you any of the pics I
>send to Singer!
>
>DF
>
>Chris wrote:
>
>> I kept my maiden name.  My son uses my maiden name for his middle name
>> and uses my husband's last name.
>>
>> Chris
>> Long Island, NY
>> Zone 7
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf Of Melody
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:36 AM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] OT-now Ms. Mrs./married names
>>
>> Kitty: I hyphenated my last name...Hobert-Mellecker. I was 25 when I got
>> married and didn't feel comfortable giving up my name but also wanted to
>> honor my husband's family name. My children have just their dad's last
>> name but are always asking me why that is...I don't really have a good
>> answer for them. One couple I know did something I didn't even know was
>> possible, but which is apparently legal as well...Her last name was
>> Johnson, his was O'Mara...now they are both Johnson-O'Mara...Just as it
>> is legal for a woman to change her name at the time of marriage, it is
>> for a man as well. Their son carries both last names too. If I had known
>> before I got married that this was possible, this is probably what my
>> husband and I would have done...seems more fitting for a true union,
>> don't you think?
>>
>> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>>
>> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
>> --Albert Einstein
>>
>>  --- On Wed 01/29, Libby Valentine < LVALENTINE@WORKINGCONCEPTS.COM >
>> wrote:
>> From: Libby Valentine [mailto: LVALENTINE@WORKINGCONCEPTS.COM]
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:42:10 -0500
>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] OT-Reverse sexism< Ms. Mrs.
>>
>> I kept my name (it is after all, my name), much to the chagrin of the
>> clerk
>> who did the license.
>>
>> Libby
>> Maryland zone 6
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kitty Morrissy
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Sent: 1/29/2003 7:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT-Reverse sexism< Ms. Mrs.
>>
>> So another qstn for the ladies:  If you are or were married, how did you
>> (if you did) change your name?
>> I went from Kathleen Marie Glasch to Kathleen Glasch Strope.
>> (At the time my birth name Kitty had early on been changed to Kathleen
>> and
>> then later changed back to Kitty)
>> I know many women who would have gone to Kathleen Marie Strope,
>> retaining
>> less of their former self.
>>
>> Kitty
>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A


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