Tim Miller

That's like the scariest one for me.

Drowning and dementia might be my two biggest fears.

Lastly, your most recent piece was about parenting, which was very cute.

And you talked about falling in love with a stranger and how parenting teaches you about that.

My related observation that I've been struggling to put my finger on that you had my neurons firing over was,

My child's being adopted was like even more of a literal stranger, right?

Because it doesn't share the DNA.

And you don't know kind of what she is going to develop into.

And my brother had his first kid like six months before we adopted her.

And I remember being in the hospital with him and his wife, my sister-in-law, and seeing that kid when he was born.

And he looked like me and my brothers did when we were kids.

You could just see it.

He was very much strong genes.

My brothers, we all look alike, and the baby looked like us.

And this baby now kind of reminds me just of me.

Now he's like nine, and he's like the first child.

He's very much like me.

But at the time, it gave me this fear.

that I was like, am I going to love this kid because of the familiarity more?

And will I ever be able to overcome that?