“What were you thinking when I was born? How did you feel?” Nathan asked his father, Colbert, at the MobileBooth in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“As a 16 year old, being a teenage father, and not having any real concept of what a father looked like, or not knowing what he sounded like, I guess I was really nervous and scared,” Colbert answered.
Colbert now raises Nathan as a single father. As a kid, Colbert remembers that he and his friends had a common bond—most were growing up with single mothers, without fathers in the picture.
“I am so proud of you because you have allowed me to be a father. I am proud of you for allowing my voice to still have meaning in a time and place when our fathers’ voices are becoming echoes. You could have used ‘growing up without a mom’ as a crutch and you have not allowed that to happen. I am also proud of you for allowing me to bring other kids that have been in really rough situations into our home,” Colbert told Nathan.
