{"id":71398,"date":"2025-08-12T03:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71398"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:20:47","slug":"i-took-my-son-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71398","title":{"rendered":"I Took My Son"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-385-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-385-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-385-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-385-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-385.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After my divorce, I knew I still wanted a baby \u2014 but not a husband. I chose sperm donation, convinced I\u2019d know exactly where my child came from.Nine months later, I had Alan, my perfect little boy. For eight years, we lived happily as a family of two \u2014 until my mom got sick, and we moved back to my hometown.That\u2019s when the whispers began. Old classmates stared at Alan like they\u2019d seen a ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarot card readings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the summer festival, I ran into my best friend from before I moved \u2014 Jude. He looked at Alan, then at me, his face pale. Alan\u2019s curls, smile, and even the way he stood\u2026 were identical to Jude\u2019s childhood photos.\u201cHow old is he?\u201d Jude asked, voice tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEight,\u201d I said, the realization hitting me like a wave. The timing lined up \u2014 right after my farewell party, the night Olivia mixed my drinks a little too strong. I\u2019d assumed the insemination the following week had worked\u2026 but maybe it hadn\u2019t.Everyone had been staring because they recognized Jude in my son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We agreed to get a DNA test. If Alan was his, Jude wanted to be in his life. I didn\u2019t know how his wife would take it \u2014 or how it would change mine \u2014 but I knew one thing: my perfectly planned \u201csingle mom\u201d life might never be the same again.Sometimes the biggest surprises aren\u2019t from strangers \u2014 they\u2019re from the people you thought you already knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71173\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my divorce, I knew I still wanted a baby \u2014 but not a husband. I chose sperm donation, convinced I\u2019d know exactly where my child came&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71400,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71398\/revisions\/71400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}