Those born at the height of the name-hyphenating craze will be the first to tell you — having two last names can be more trouble than it’s worth. There’s the perennial confusion at school and at the doctor’s office, and the challenge of squeezing your name onto forms.
And now that the hyphenated generation is marrying and parenting, a whole host of new tricky situations has emerged.
Take Leila and Brendan. Their story is one of those fairy tale stories of love at first sight. She was in the lobby of her apartment building when this cute guy started moving in.
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