I got my birth certificate today! I forgot that the vital records office had moved out to near the JFK Library. Very pleasant. It’s a small, nondescript office in a small nondescript office building where momentous things happen.
The last time I was there, my mom and I were getting her original birth certificate, the one with her birth mother’s name on …
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