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[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

hi, new here, obsessed with names, i plan on posting here quite often, i had no idea this community existed! haha.

I HAVE A QUESTION. i don't know if anyone would happen to know, but i think it's related enough.

i was cursed enough to be named Jessica (no offense to other Jessica's, it's just 'not me'). the rest of my name is pretty awful, too. at the age of 12, i had decided that i want to be called Lorelei Black. i'm nearly 17 now, and i've been deadset on it. i'm still deciding on a middle name, i've been tossing around a few... but i'm positive i want to do this. almost everyone i know calls me Lorelei.

my question is, has anyone else done this here, and could they describe the process and fees, especially? i have a job and my parents have no objection to me doing it before i'm eighteen... i really want it done because i'm starting college in a month, and i want my named changed as early as i can as to not confuse everyone, and so i can have it on my degree (obviously it won't be done in a month, haha, but yeah).

so if anyone can help, that'd be awesome. :D

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[cleddy.livejournal.com]

i dont know where you live...but in my homestate (Alabama) all you had to do was go to the social security office and fill out paperwork...the fee used to be $20 but it might be more now...then that office sent it whereever it needed to go. Once you get the paperwork back, then you just have to go around town and everywhere and update the records (like driver's license, medical records, whatever-most places (like doctors offices and such) just make a copy and keep it in their records. So anyway-try calling your nearest social security office or city hall, someone can point you in the right direction. Good luck!