Sarah Spain

I cried the first time Dylan said it.

But Dylan goes to see him for the first time in person after they know of their connection as father-son.

And he's nervous and sitting in the car, and Sherman looks out the window and sees him sitting, and he's like, oh, this cat's nervous.

Like, he's just sitting out in his car, not coming up, even though we've known each other for years.

His adoptive dad left when he's two.

He hasn't had a dad since.

And he didn't realize how much he was carrying feelings of, am I enough?

Am I worthy?

Does someone want to claim me?

And for this man, this ideal of a person to embrace him and call him his son, he just sort of let his inner child release and cry and be embraced by this man.

It's been joyful, mostly, and also complicated.

And for me, doing the story the first time, we did a lot of work on it, but nothing like writing a book.

So the hours and hours of interviews, all the people I talk to, all the detail I unravel.

And I mean, there's a twist with his brother that I didn't know the first time I reported it.

that I think is day one stuff if I was talking to someone and his brother didn't think it was day one stuff.

So I didn't find out until I start writing the book that there's a whole nother parental twist that goes on in his family, even before what happens with his dad.

And so you have to read the book for that.

There's a tease that we're not giving away in this interview.

But yeah, as I'm doing more of these interviews and I'm talking to everyone in the family,

Thank you so much for having me.