Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Fait Accompli!

Birth dad and me, three months old. Mother and Dad, Christmas Medicare: signed, sealed and about to be delivered three months from now.

I was apprehensive about meeting with SSA today. When mother divorced my birth dad and married again she changed our last names to his without him ever adopting us. Since I was never adopted I had no legal papers explaining how my birth certificate name differed from the name I used until marrying. I once asked mother if this would be a legal problem later in life and she said, no – as long as no fraud was intended it was okay. Maybe, maybe not but it didn’t present any problems today. Next year: social security. There are definitely perks to getting older!

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