weird American birth certificate

My mother was born and given up for adoption in a state that seals adoption records for 80 years. We found her birth family because her birth certificate had her birth name crossed out with a single pen line and her adopted name written in above it. We surmised that her birth middle and last names were actually her birth mother's full name and since it was a rare last name we were easily able to find her in the 1930 census. This allowed us to locate her birth mother's still-living sister. All went well, but this was certainly an egregious violation of the state's adoption laws.

I had a passport once I kept in the topbox of my motorcycle during a camping trip. It also had a stick of butter in it for cooking. this went fine when the temperature was sub 20°C. On the return day it was hot as hell however. I pulled out my passport at the ferry and it was covered in butter. The desk lady was like, da fuck?