Drum roll please!
by NP (Login nobodyatall)After 26 years of trying: Petitioning the court, begging agencies, stealing a look at documents here and there, waiting for responses from this government agency and that government agency, going to court - to court - to court...... after paying thousands of dollars in fees, legal fees, charges for certified copies of this and that and more this and that and then the other thing too.........
I am proud to announce that today at 3:25 pm central, during my 44th year of life, I have in my hand my original birth certificate! It only took 26 years for me to get the records unsealed! I am real.
The last try I made three months ago I stood in the government center with tears rolling down my cheeks after a 2 hour wait while they searched, listening to the man tell me that there was no such child born under that name, on that date, in that city, county or state. This last shock was so bad I nearly collapsed. But a kindly clerk evidently could not let this rest. She has spent the last several weeks quietly searching on her off hours the neighboring states, changed the birth date slightly..... and there is was, I was! I have never been religious but God bless her forever and ever. And now here it is in my very hand! Monday I will order flowers sent to the government center with thank you card and balloons.
Since tonight is one of my kid's 17th birthday, I think it VERY appropriate that we go out to celebrate!
So happy I'm bursting!
Nobody Perfect, but maybe somebody after all
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