NaokoSmith
Honourable Slut
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I've just been sorting out some family papers and have found my original birth certificate. I have been using a modern copy for years.
My father lied on it. When I was born he gave his occupation as something he hadn't been for some years.
Perhaps he thought his actual occupation was covered by the Official Secrets Act?
It also confirms a family story. My parents had argued about what I would be called. They had agreed on potential girls' names but they couldn't agree on boys' names. I was born close to midnight. Once I had arrived, my father finally got my mother to accept compromise names that neither of them objected to.
He registered my birth the next morning, within minutes of the Registry Office opening, to prevent my mother having second thoughts.
But, except for official documents, I haven't used my birth name since 1957...
Og, that is not a story. That's not even half a story! We need more, we need the Registry Office's backstory.
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