Hello, Jack and Wendy. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Matt. I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

I have kind of a long story that could probably revive the Jerry Springer show, but I will keep it as brief as possible.

I'm going to read through some bullet points here that I wrote down.

It started with a prophetic dream about having a new baby boy.

The mother of that boy that did come to be, she leads a secret life. I learned just before

his third birthday that biologically he's not my son. She has addictions to hard drugs and

she's very promiscuous. I didn't realize this the first few years.

We were together.

Everything seemed fine.

Everything was good.

I bought a house for us to live in.

We had a nice little family.

Then when I noticed, I found some drugs hidden somewhere and looked through her phone

and found out all sorts of information I didn't

want to know. I realized, hey, you know, my son was born a month earlier than he should have been,

so that got me questioning his parentage and I had a DNA test done and he is not my son unfortunately I

did I never wanted to abandon it was never a question me whether or not I was

going to abandon him and and her and just let them go on their merry way. Despite all of my friends and family advice, they all said,

hey, you know, just get yourself off the birth certificate, man, just go on your merry way. And I could have,

but that's not, I couldn't.

You know, I'm the only, only person he knows as his father, and I'm not going to permanently disrupt his life just because of a temporary disruption in mind.

And, you know, so anyway, he's my son I'm gonna raise him you know I learned later

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