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When escaping family legacy leaves you feeling untethered

I changed my last name when I got married because I wanted to escape my family's reputation in this small town but now I feel like I abandoned something important about who I am

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're grappling with whether severing symbolic ties to a problematic family history was liberation or loss of essential identity.

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