My family is proud of our name, but it makes me bot


DEAR ABBY: At age 17, my pregnant and unwanted mother married a schoolmate of my biological father. I got the last name of the schoolmate. Several years later, my mother divorced her first husband and she married my biological father.

Jeanne Phillips

They discussed changing my last name into that of my bio-father, but never did. I recently had DNA tests that prove that this information was accurate.

My last name is still not the name of my biological father, and I recently learned that the man named on my birth certificate was a rapist, an alcoholic and a bully. This is very exaggerated, and I would like to change my name legally to fit in with my real father.

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