It’s hard to compare 50-year-old men to your bitty kiddos.
However, we were lucky Aaron had already uploaded all his school photos to Facebook, where it was pretty easy to confirm he was, in fact, our donor.
The “dumb face” I always associate with Aaron and my girls is what I guess is the first grade pic. Luckily the girls grew out of that little nose thing. Aaron did too.
It came to light early on that the DNA relatives liked to binge on David Lynch and had an overdeveloped sense of weird. So Jessica showed Alice the entire series, and she agreed it was very cool. Until, you know, it went off the rails.
Part of meeting Aaron for us was visiting some of the sites in the series. Here are some personal pictures of our day visiting the waterfall above the lodge and eating at Tweed’s. Mmmm, cherry pie and coffee. Black.
About 6 months into our relationship, Aaron started talking about writing his story for the Modern Love column in the New York Times.
I alternately wanted to read it and did not want to read it, and he assured me I could once it was done and edited.
Then he said I could read it in the paper, assuming they wouldn’t accept it.
Then they called to announce that they wanted to publish it.
It was beautiful all along. Here it is.
The day we met a documentary crew was already on hand. That was slightly awkward.
Alice is trying really hard not to touch Madi.
Aaron and Bryce prove that being barefoot has some basis in genetics. Check out the gallery from that fateful day.
