Death, Sex & Money - I Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A listener named Tony wrote to us about his deep love for his daughter, and what it was like to discover that he wasn't her biological father.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think you were a father? |
| 0:02.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:03.5 | Is it past tense? |
| 0:05.3 | Yeah, probably. |
| 0:07.0 | I wouldn't consider myself a father now. |
| 0:12.5 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:15.8 | Please, they're dead. |
| 0:16.5 | It's a little late to be neurotic. |
| 0:17.9 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:21.3 | Are you guys like boyfriend, girlfriend? And need to talk about war. I've always admired men like |
| 0:26.4 | your father. Wealthy, but not stuffy. I'm in a sale. Six years ago, when Tony was in his |
| 0:35.5 | mid-20s, he was working as a bartender and a photographer in a Western college town. |
| 0:40.6 | One night after work, and after a few drinks, he hooked up with a woman he dated back in high school. |
| 0:46.6 | It was just pretty random. The whole thing just kind of happened really fast and then was over. |
| 0:51.7 | Then, a few weeks later, she told him she was pregnant. |
| 0:55.3 | There was a really, really, really long silence after she told me, |
| 1:00.4 | because I was pretty careful with what I wanted to say, |
| 1:06.0 | or was planning to say I needed to, like, think about it for sure. |
| 1:10.5 | And I told her that it was her choice |
| 1:16.1 | everything and if she chose to keep it then I would be a good dad and I would take care of her and |
| 1:23.8 | the baby and I did give her a disclaimer that night and said that I didn't want to |
| 1:29.8 | start a relationship with her because of a child. Did you say, are you sure it's mine? |
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