“folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms,”
From where? Kenya?, UK?, Indonesia?, Canada? USA?, Mars?
I have come to believe that a USA b/c does not exsist. It’s human nature to want to prove somebody wrong and that nyou are as pure as the driven snow. I had a colleague who kept insisting there was a document to prove he was not the who screwed up...I’m still waiting a year later.
So, you selected case 2.