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It's bad enough to get one's first letter from @AARP but when it's addressed to "Julia Caruso" when your name is Julia Carreon is
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It's bad enough to get one's first letter from @AARP but when it's addressed to "Julia Caruso" when your name is Julia Carreon is
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I kept my own name at marriage. I do not hyphenate it. Heck, I won't even go by Mrs. Caruso at the boys' school.
There is literally not a single legal or personal artifact in existence where I am Caruso.
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There is literally not a single legal or personal artifact in existence where I am Caruso.
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Even our annual family x-cards (for which we are infamous) are signed "Julia Carreon, Chris Caruso & boys."
So the question is: Where oh where did @AARP get this name from?
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So the question is: Where oh where did @AARP get this name from?
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I don't know.
But it's yet another infuriating example of patriarchy in society, where women are encouraged or expected to defer to men.
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But it's yet another infuriating example of patriarchy in society, where women are encouraged or expected to defer to men.
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I stand against it.
(Don't @ me that this is slam against women who have taken their husband's name. It's not. I obvi believe EVERY woman has the right to do whatever she wants.)
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(Don't @ me that this is slam against women who have taken their husband's name. It's not. I obvi believe EVERY woman has the right to do whatever she wants.)
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