Not in any way.

It was designed to protect you, and to outmaneuver the men who spent twenty years trying to trace anything Julian might leave behind.

Those men knew Julian had money hidden somewhere, patents, an estate, and they knew that if he had a secret heir, everything would pass to that heir.

For two decades they watched for any sign of a child.

If Julian had ever filed a document in a courthouse acknowledging you as his daughter, they would have known within days, and they would have come for you, with lawyers first and worse things after.”