stackyFACTSTrust is a rare commodity, which is why the legal system invented notaries. These state-sanctioned witnesses built an entire profession out of verifying that you are, in fact, the person signing a piece of paper, charging exorbitant fees just to press an ink stamp onto a document to appease the bureaucratic gods.
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