I was at my little apartment and my dad called me and he said, hey, you got a minute.

And I was like, yeah.

And he was like, so I just got a call from the Tacoma District Attorney's office.

And they were saying that there's a paternity case against me.

And I was like shocked because my dad is a Baptist minister and he's a pretty straight

lace guy and I could not imagine him cheating on my mom.

Like I remember being like, what?

This is my friend, Alexan.

He's a journalist, writer and performer.

I remember saying like, how?

I mean, who?

Like what?

And he laughed and he said, what's not me?

And I was like, oh.

Alstad is also named Alesson.

The Tacoma District Attorney might have had the wrong out.

But Alopt didn't know anyone in Washington.

At the time he was living in Jacksonville, Florida where he grew up.

I had no idea who, what this could be.

So I called up really skeptical, like, yeah, whatever.

The clerk told him the name of the woman who had viled the case.

But all kind of snapped into focus.

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