This is the end of this arc, which is the longest-running story that I've told in 'FINDING DEE'. Yes, the clerk in question lied to me on the phone and said that the building would be closed on the day of my revised hearing due to a holiday on the MONDAY three days afterward. It was her final act of fuckery trying to derail my name change. The judge actually sent his clerk down to that office with his court order to ensure we would get our paperwork immediately and with no problems. In the end, the only thing the clerk that had been the bane of our existence could do was to refer to me a, I shit you not, 'this person' instead of using my name, gender-specific title or pronoun. But I didn't want to focus on that last roadblock, instead MENTIONING it but moving on. This was finalized on February 12th, and I've been LEGALLY 'Dee Fish' ever since!