My attorney asked whether I knew what the folder concerned.

“I agreed to a test,” I said.

“At the clinic.

They said there was a possible family connection.”

I had not known whose.

A few weeks earlier, separate from my ordinary prenatal care, I had consented to a family-identification inquiry after an initial lead.

Then I had agreed to a confirmatory sample.

The staff had explained that nothing would be shared with a claimant without the permissions I gave.