John Brennan

How is it that a year ago, I'm 99.97% a match to this human, and now here we are a year later and I'm 0%?

How is it that a year ago, I'm 99.97% a match to this human, and now here we are a year later and I'm 0%?

And I had to ask myself, should I? Is this the right thing to do? Do I sign these papers and basically sign my son away to some other guy that I've never even met before? Is that the right thing to do? I don't know. My gut is telling me, no, this is my kid. What do you mean? I don't care what the results are.

And I had to ask myself, should I? Is this the right thing to do? Do I sign these papers and basically sign my son away to some other guy that I've never even met before? Is that the right thing to do? I don't know. My gut is telling me, no, this is my kid. What do you mean? I don't care what the results are.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, we call it the fake baby now. Obviously, it's been close to 10 years, so we kind of joke about it now.

Yeah, we call it the fake baby now. Obviously, it's been close to 10 years, so we kind of joke about it now.

I guess I had thought that I was this one-off, you know, chance, because, you know, it's not 100, it's 99.97. So I'm thinking, all right, well, I guess I was just at 0.03. How could I be that unlucky? It's just so hard for me to wrap my brain around. Did she manipulate something? Is this her? Is it this company? Who's to blame here?

I guess I had thought that I was this one-off, you know, chance, because, you know, it's not 100, it's 99.97. So I'm thinking, all right, well, I guess I was just at 0.03. How could I be that unlucky? It's just so hard for me to wrap my brain around. Did she manipulate something? Is this her? Is it this company? Who's to blame here?

To this day, it's been a mystery. To this day, it blows my mind that this happened to me.

To this day, it's been a mystery. To this day, it blows my mind that this happened to me.

This wasn't just some flawed test result. This is something fishy.

This wasn't just some flawed test result. This is something fishy.

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