You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?

— from Unsigned Birth Certificates of the Americas, Coyote Archive, undated
See also:
— On the Pyrotechnics of Lineage, Dept. of Unverifiable Origins, Lagos, 1962
— A Midwife’s Field Guide to Combustible Naming Ceremonies, Salt Marsh Pamphlets, No. 7
— Who Told You That Was Your Name, Proceedings of the Fourth Council of Unnamed Women, Oaxaca, 1978
— Fire as a Form of Refusal, Oral Transcription, source: my grandmother, date: disputed