Unexpected

This afternoon a piano student's mother enquired, "You changed your last name when you got married, right?" I replied that I had, and she burst out, "Good for you! You've moved into a cohesive universe, which is more than I can say for myself." She went on to say how people frequently made incorrect assumptions about her name and/or her childrens' names and told me how confusing it can become to have different names within the family. What a surprising response...