I got maybe three sentences in before he looked at me in complete horror and proceeded to put both his hands over my mouth. He did not let me finish reading the book.

So I guess I know how he feels about that. (2/2)

I could go for one of those ガラ携 these days, ngl.

Honestly I had no idea either until you posted about it.

Also Alpert-Bowen sounds high-brow af, what a fancy double-barrelled name.

I did a LOT of googling about options lol, because I know not sharing a surname with your kid can cause issues at borders sometimes. We basically just combed both our family trees and found the one we agreed on most and had the most palatable katakana.

smashed them together.)

Tbh that's why me and my partner picked a third surname to hyphenate with our birth surnames -- that way, we essentially have a "family name" that we all share and our individual preexisting surnames. (Though, if our original surnames sounded good together in any way, we probably would have just