Like my ancestors of thousands of years,
my birthday was unrecorded, Driven by a high school teacher to get a birth
certificate, I wrote to the Bureau of Statistics in Juneau. I would need three
written affidavits before they would issue one. I was unable to get a single
one and yet the Territory of Alaska persisted in their need for these
affidavits. At my end, I wrote as angry a letter as I could which resulted in a
delayed birth certificate. It became official that I was born at Teller, Alaska
on June 28, 1956. Now I belonged to Western Civilization.
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