Father

            The man called himself Gem’s father. Gem said, “You’re Jarod’s father. I don’t have a father. I was made in a test tube out of a scrap of DNA.”

            The man knelt in front of him and said, “You are Jarod’s twin. Yes, your DNA was taken from his body, not mine and his mother’s, but you share DNA in exactly the same way identical twins do. You may be twenty years younger, but you are his twin. That makes you my son. I don’t care if you were conceived normally or not. You’re my son. And I love you.”