Part Twenty: An Order of Filiation

Being the biological father of a child is not the same as being the legal father of a child, and the gap between those two things is a process, and the process took four months and nine days.

Nobody ever puts this part in and it is the part that actually made me their father.

Because the girls were born to an unmarried mother in North Carolina and my name was on nothing, I had no legal relationship to them of any kind.

None.