(Not that it requires a justification either way. It’s a personal choice.)

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    My bio teachers last name was “MoCock.” His wife’s first name is "Love."We just called him,“Mr. Mo”. I think it’s crazy she took his name, lmao.

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      I know a girl named Paige that married a man with the last name Page.

      We call her Page 2. It’s also fun when they disagree and I ask if they can get on the same page.

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        I know a couple with the same name (one masculine one feminine version). Their names can both be shortened to “little bear”. I will never stop calling them collectively “Haribo”

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          A buddy of mine dated a girl in high school that had the feminine version of his name and they had the same last name (no relation, but we gave him shit anyway).

          I’m sad we gave him so much shit because that was the coolest person he dated over the next two decades. He agrees that she should have been his first wife and he should have hyphenated his last name.

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      I used to have a manager named Kelly who had recently divorced a man with the last name Kelly

      Kelly Kelly

      Still makes me laugh

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    I never thought I would mind changing my last name when getting married until it actually happened, and I was surprisingly emotional about it. It felt like I was erasing my identity or something, a totally unexpected feeling that came out of nowhere. It was also weird to have to change my signature after having it for so many years.

    We ended up getting divorced 7 years later and I reclaimed my maiden name, and needless to say, if I ever get married again, I will not be changing my last name. It was also a nightmare of paperwork to change it (both to get married and divorced), and I don’t want to do that yet again.

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      The nightmare of paperwork and the cluster fuck it creates for tracking people made Quebec’s government change its stance on the subject in 1981 and since then people who want to do it when they get married have to go through the same process as they would have went through to change their name for any other reason and if I’m not mistaken on government IDs the women’s married names were changed back to their original name.

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      My sister’s first marriage didn’t go well, and her name finally got changed from her maiden name to her married name like the week after they filed for divorce.

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    My dudes… Dr. Strange is my new neighbor!

    She’s a veteran… but I’m kind of an animal so I figure it should be OK 😎

    Also; 2 cats, one of which is definitely smarter than the average bear… the other, is orange.