“There were three questions I wanted to ask him...”

Nick Shepard (L) tells his friend Hugh Ryan the story of meeting his biological father for the first time.

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Recorded in New York, NY

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Facilitated by Rani Shankar.

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NS: I woke up the morning after I got to Glasgow and I decided to just go to the university to look around, see what I thought. I had the address written down for my biological father and um I went there I looked down the hallway and I saw a sign with his name. Finally I just said this is probably the only chance in my life I will ever have to do this. I walked up to the door and I knocked and he looked at me with a look that was, not quite hostile, but impatient.

I said, 'Do you have a minute?' He said, 'Sure.' I said, 'Do you remember living in Connecticut twenty years ago?" and he got this kind of odd smile on his face and said, 'Yes, I remember it.' I said, 'Well do you remember a relationship with a woman named Eloise that you had? And he says,