[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a less-offputting way of writing the same thing:

"Tibby's mom had insisted on hyphenating her daughter's name during one of the awkward ideological shifts she was prone to. During the next one, she'd insisted on changing her own name when she remarried, holding this to be a strong moral principle, just as its opposite had been a few years earlier. The result was that Tibby was dragging around a surname she shared with no one in the family, attached to her by a hyphen she sometimes got sick of writing on forms."

That presents the same info, but doesn't deride one of her mom's phases as morally inferior to another.

[(Anonymous)]

But that sounds like it was wriien by someone much older who has been to college. The original text has the bluntness of an adolescent.

[ibbity]

Except that Tibby is a super judgy teenager with a bunch of hangups that she deals with in various weird teenage ways, so the original passage gets at her mindset better.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm gonna be nitpicky here and say that that doesn't present the same issue because Alice didn't change her name when she remarried. She's still married to Tibby's father, always has been, since she was 19...I wanna say?

The difference is that by the time they had their second child, several years later, Alice had dropped her maiden name but because Tibby's a minor and it's written on her birth certificate, she's stuck with it.