Last Day In Vegas chapter four

Johnnie's parents had never bothered to get married. There had been some debate about which religious ceremony they were going to observe for the nuptials. Ephraim Pai had decided that an Animist wedding was the most spiritually binding, but unfortunately they could find no one in the greater Cleveland area to administer the rather obtuse rites. Su Han Yan Gow was a Buddhist or had been until she read Jean Paul Sartre's book Being and Nothingness and realized that Sartre was probably on drugs. Why this had effected her belief in the Buddha no one was quite sure. Her family thought it best not to probe too deeply and so the marriage had been postponed and further postponed and eventually forgotten.
Johnnie had changed his name at age eighteen to include his mothers name because he had become tired of the jokes about his last name.
"Hey Johnnie Apple Pie howsabout some whip cream?"
He also thought it was too much of a crazy coincidence that his parents names together would be the same as the famous poker game. This coincidence may have had some effect on Johnnies future profession.