Texting your mom after your at-home DNA results show the...

Conversation

1. Mom I need to tell you something urgent.
2. What happened? You're freaking me out.
3. My at-home DNA just matched Mark as my father.
4. Mark as in our neighbor Mark?
5. Yes — he literally RSVPed to Sunday brunch today.
6. Jess stop, that doesn't mean anything by itself.
7. The report says 'paternal match 99.8 percent' next to his name.
8. I don't know how that could be.
9. Why did you tell me my dad died when he might be alive?
10. Because I thought I was protecting you from chaos.
11. Protecting me from what, Mom?
12. From a man who would have destroyed our lives.
13. Then why did Mark baby-sit every summer?
14. Because he was always there, not because he was father.
15. He texted me 'can't wait to meet my daughter' this morning.