I just filled out our passport applications and mine may not pass muster.

[chowmama]

It has to do with supplying info on my parentage. Specifically, it's my mother's name on her birth certificate.

I don't know if it's the period (1928), the area (Texas) or if my grandparents were just insane. But they named her, wait for it, Virgin.

This is not a typo. It is not Virginia (my grandmother's and my older sister's name). It is Virgin. She did change it legally to Virginia when she got the chance, after a brief period of insisting during high school that she be called Virgil. (I have an engraved sports trophy and some other documentation with Virgil, although that was never her legal name.) But she was born Virgin.

I can't knowingly provide false information on the application, or I'll get in deep shit. And everybody who sees the damn thing will turn it back for the 'typo'.

Oh, well - if I'm going to be screwed either way, I might as well be screwed for telling the truth.

[SheltieLover]

1. Send a certified copy of her birth certificate with your paoerwork?

Good luck!

[chowmama]

2. Her teenage years must have been pure hell.

[FSogol]

3. I had an Aunt Vrginia. She went by Gin.