Apparently, I was never born.

I applied for a new passport with the copy of my birth certificate that I used the first time around, when I needed a passport as a missionary.

Not only was the passport application denied, but the copy was confiscated.

I have been struggling to get the state of Texas to acknowledge my birth for a week now. It is not going well. I need a birth certificate, with an embossed, raised seal, in color, to prove I am who I claim to be. To prove that I exist.

Perhaps...all I am...is a figment of someone's imagination...

Patience is a virtue, eh?