General Discussion

I'll begin at the end. I have a passport, so I'm fine. But my parents divorced when I was very young and my mother remarried. My step-father adopted me and my last name was changed. Actually, they changed the spelling of my first name, also by adding an additional letter. Luckily for me, my parents kept the adoption papers and the name change and I now have them.

Later I married and divorced. I took my maiden name back, thank God, or I'd probably be in a damn mess now shuffling all the paperwork around: birth certificate, adoption papers with name change, marriage certificate, divorce decree. My advice to women, especially with all this, is to keep your maiden name, at least for legal purposes.

I hate these horrible people. I just hate them.