Why I Changed My Name When I Got Married
From the moment we leave the womb and a little plastic tag is placed around our tiny wrists, our names signify to the world who we are. Those few letters become our identity forever more, adorning everything from our school uniform and social media pages to passports and personalised jewellery; they travel with us wherever we go and become so ingrained in who we are as people, that it's often impossible to distinguish between where the person ends and the name begins. Even though I went through a few years of deciding I wanted to be called Rosie as a child (which later became Sophie - I was so jealous when my baby cousin whipped that from me a few years later!) for the majority of my life I've actually loved my moniker; Hayley has never been that common and I've only ever met a handful of other people throughout my thirty five years that have shared it with me. It feels part of who I am so much that I have it engraved, embossed or stuck on whenever I can: one of my most treasured possessions is my 'Hayley'...
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