My Daughter’s Father

My daughter turns 5 next week. If anyone knew the truth behind her parentage, I could probably lose her forever.

I grew up in foster care, never knew my parents or siblings. In my senior year of high school, I met an older guy and we dated for almost a year – getting pregnant after dating about 7 months. One night, while we were watching TV, the subject somehow came around to our real parents (he had been adopted as a young child.) Turns out the man I was seeing, the father of my daughter is my half-brother – we have the same mother. Our relationship didn’t last after that, and he is not in her life, per his own choices.