“A coworker of my husband remarried after her husband died and she just made that last name her middle name.”
As you are probably aware, my grand parents recently adopted a boy and girl. The girls name was Amber Nicole Lindsey, she wanted to keep Lindsey as a middle name and drop the Nicole, becoming Amber Lindsey (redacted), which is a fine middle name but gramps was very specific - NO hyphen between Lindsey and (redacted) or his lawyer would pay whatever it cost to get rid of the hyphen.
No birth certificates yet but they have been applied for. Got to give them time, after all, this is Illinois government they are dealing with and it’s only been 4 months since it was applied for.
I think the story is wonderful and sorta funny your new aunt and uncle are younger than you ;-)
Haven’t seen your name in a while!!