There was a time when watching a paternity test play out on Jerry Springer was seen as peak entertainment. The audience would gasp, the results would be read, someone would run offstage crying, and everyone at home would feel a complicated mixture of horror and satisfaction before changing the channel. It was messy and dramatic and happening to someone else, which made it perfectly safe to enjoy.
It is considerably less entertaining when it is your life. One man found that out at his son’s 4th birthday party, and what unfolded over the nine months that followed is one of the most painful stories the internet has read in a very long time.
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