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“Come on,” Bosch urged (to Skinner who will turn 50 next day). “Do this and then I’ll buy you a margarita for your last day as a forty-niner. T === “Mother’s Day” was street slang for the day that government subsistence checks landed in mailboxes, usually the first of every month. The nickname came about because street hoods often came home to visit mother on the day she got her government check. === A birth certificate was the only requirement to apply for a California driver’s license. The problem was, there was no national template for birth certificates. Thousands of counties across the country issued them, each with its own design. A DMV clerk in California would be hard-pressed to declare as false a certificate from ... if the document presented appeared official and legitimate. A driver’s license would be only one stop on the way to a full identity package, with Social Security number and passport to follow.