Boy! What leaps and jumps you're capable of. Of course she had to if she did not get divorc=ced and go back to her maiden name.
The ultimate irony: The woman who preached independence, ended up dependent. She never admitted it.
Dante posted:
While she often used the pseudonym "Ayn Rand" for her professional writing, the government records utilized her legal name.
So, what the eff are you on about? You did not catch Dante misleading, like you are well known to do.
But the thing here is most people who knew of her would NEVER have expected her to be collecting. She knew that. Most people did not associate her marriage name with Ayn Rand the personality. Why would somebody make teh connection back then?
She was hiding. Why wasn't a huge public story at the time? She never held back on crap before. She was embarrassed she'd be found out as a fraud.
Don't forget her pal:
Ayn Rand did not have to take her SS and Medicare.
If she actually stood by her cherished principles, which she used to beat other people unmercifully, she would have done what a friend of hers did:
refuse to accept the Socialistic payments
THAT IS THE POINT HERE. And
TNHarley knows it.
Her principled friends Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson, both rejected Social Security