Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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“Though I am on the face a fairly messy person, I have always proudly kept my papers in order.”

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Jen Deaderick
Sep 27, 2023
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I can’t find my birth certificate. I need it to renew my driver’s license and it’s not where it’s supposed to be.

Though I am on the face a fairly messy person, I have always proudly kept my papers in order. In the last couple of decades, though, I have accrued the papers of others: my ex-husband’s for a while, my kid’s forever, my Mom’s, my aunt’s.

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