"ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith. Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one."

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Robert A. Heinlein, first lines of the "uncut edition" of Stranger in a Strange Land (1991), about a human born on Mars, who is eventually revealed to be the archangel Michael.