Painterly two round silver discs joined by a short bar on a pale lace doily.

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Marcie Dahlgren-Frost

Marcie Dahlgren-Frost. Dahlgren is my maiden name, Frost is my married name. I'm single again, but I never bothered to remove the frost. And I get compliments on the hyphen.

— Uncle Buck · 1989

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Marcie turns an explanation of her surname into a miniature comedy of marriage and divorce. Keeping Frost invites a pun about lingering coldness, while compliments on the hyphen make punctuation sound like a personal accessory worth retaining after the relationship ends.

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