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To: MSB who wrote (68573)	12/24/1999 5:28:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

I don't know if I come from a larger extended family. Certainly, the immediate family of cousins is larger, from your description. However, an interesting point about surnames: I married in the mid-seventies, when keeping one's surname if one happened to be a woman, was a big deal. My about-to-be husband spent a weekend, at my request, thinking about all the "stuff" around being a professional and switching names himself: At the end of the weekend, he had the grace to say, "Oh, what a horror show! DON'T change your name!" Hyphenation would have been ridiculous, since our surnames were too similar. If we had had children, they would have had different surnames, in alphabetical order. My father, an old-fashioned type, understood--to my amazement. He rejoiced in the idea of the family name carried forward through a woman who did not seek to find an identity in marriage.