> Once upon a time, back in the old days, women would take their husband's last name and bump their own maiden name up to their middle name. My grandmother, for example, was Helen Ida Hyle before she got married, and Helen Hyle Helwig after. I thought that would be really cool to do- Amber Day Sumner would be a really neat name- but I like my middle name too much, and I didn't want to deal with four names. So Amber Rebekah it is.
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> ~mina "besides, the way my family has been acting recently, I'm not too keen on keeping their name anyway" moon

My parents didn't give me a middle name specifically for that purpose. It's sort of a family tradition. All of the men on my father's side were given their mother's maiden name as their middle name to balance it out, I suppose.

My grandfather was the product of two Parkinson's (not related), so his name is Blaine Parkinson Parkinson, which, I think, is terribly clever.

Tess Parkinson ___________