{"id":25843,"date":"2026-09-30T01:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=25843"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:44:23","slug":"part-10-patricia-wynn-remembered-my-case-without-looking-at-her-notes-and-her-explanation-of-e7-changed-what-i-thought-had-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=25843","title":{"rendered":"PART 10 \u2013 Patricia Wynn Remembered My Case Without Looking at Her Notes, and Her Explanation of E7 Changed What I Thought Had Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Wynn lived in a small brick house at the end of a quiet road bordered by pine trees.<\/p>\n<p>Michael drove.<\/p>\n<p>Jake insisted on coming.<\/p>\n<p>I did not argue.<\/p>\n<p>After what he had heard, excluding him would have repeated the same mistake everyone else had made.<\/p>\n<p>The rain stopped halfway there. Weak sunlight broke through the clouds, turning the wet highway silver.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the drive, nobody spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Then Jake asked from the back seat, \u201cDid Grandma know Dad might not be my biological father the whole time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Michael answered at the same moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake stared out the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Grandpa?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone except you two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael gripped the steering wheel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake gave a quiet laugh without humor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned toward him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can be angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat includes us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia opened the door before we knocked.<\/p>\n<p>She was small and thin, with white hair cut just below her ears. Her eyes moved first to me, then Michael, then Jake.<\/p>\n<p>When she saw Jake, she gripped the doorframe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake stiffened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia did not answer immediately.<\/p>\n<p>She studied his face with an intensity that made me uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Finally she stepped aside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her living room smelled of old books and lemon furniture polish. Medical journals filled two shelves. A framed photograph of a younger Patricia standing beside laboratory equipment rested on a side table.<\/p>\n<p>She did not offer coffee.<\/p>\n<p>She sat opposite us and placed a black notebook on her lap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look like Thomas,\u201d she told Jake.<\/p>\n<p>No one moved.<\/p>\n<p>Jake swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he was the donor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word entered the room quietly.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Lawson was Jake\u2019s biological father.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle.<\/p>\n<p>My father\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n<p>Jake stared at the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Michael looked toward the window.<\/p>\n<p>I felt strangely detached.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there are discoveries too large for immediate emotion.<\/p>\n<p>The mind simply places them on a shelf marked later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia folded her hands over the notebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour treatment had failed repeatedly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael\u2019s sperm count was extremely low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVale told me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told you less than half.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe final sample you provided had almost no motile sperm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why didn\u2019t they cancel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Margaret refused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould my mother decide that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegally? No.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut practically?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret had influence. Your father had funded the program. Vale owed him favors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Thomas have to do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret contacted him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout telling me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout telling Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVale believed you had been told enough to give general authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s voice hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told the backup sample was mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew he lied to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you say anything?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a technician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat isn\u2019t an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked at Michael steadily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was afraid of losing my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked away.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia opened the notebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas did not initially agree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would he agree at all?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause your father asked him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were estranged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuilt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat part isn\u2019t mine to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhose is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou knew him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBriefly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was he like?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia considered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuiet. Intelligent. Uncomfortable with what was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he know the recipient was his niece?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he still donated?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believed it would be ordinary insemination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia\u2019s fingers tightened around the notebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where E7 matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She opened to a page marked with a paper tab.<\/p>\n<p>My treatment number appeared in faded blue ink.<\/p>\n<p>Beside it:<\/p>\n<p>E7 &#8211; Lawson source &#8211; conversion approved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is conversion?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour cycle was converted from planned intrauterine insemination to an experimental assisted-fertilization procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn early form of laboratory-assisted fertilization and transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIVF?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelated to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My mouth went dry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would remember IVF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were told you were receiving treatment for ovarian complications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A memory surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Vale telling me one follicle had developed incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>My mother driving me to the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Sedation.<\/p>\n<p>Pain afterward.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at Patricia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey retrieved my eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout telling me that was what they were doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou signed a procedure consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI signed something for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe language was intentionally broad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael muttered, \u201cJesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral eggs were retrieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive were fertilized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Thomas\u2019s sperm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I pressed my hand against my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Jake sat motionless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to the embryos?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo failed early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd three?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked at the notebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne was transferred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the other two?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her silence changed the room.<\/p>\n<p>I leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to the other two?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were cryopreserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My heartbeat became painfully loud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrozen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor how long?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere they destroyed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere they used?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake stared at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you not know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause that is where the records were altered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia turned several pages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years after your pregnancy, both embryos disappeared from the storage ledger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisappeared?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir identifiers were reassigned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never found out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stood.<\/p>\n<p>The room felt too small.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re telling me someone may have used embryos created from my eggs without my consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m telling you the records stopped making sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Vale do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe he authorized the changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid my mother know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The word hit harder than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>I walked to the window.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, wind moved through the pines.<\/p>\n<p>My mother had arranged the donor.<\/p>\n<p>Concealed the retrieval.<\/p>\n<p>Ordered kinship testing.<\/p>\n<p>And later knew something had happened to the remaining embryos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did the prenatal kinship test prove?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia answered behind me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Thomas was the biological father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy test if they already knew?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMargaret demanded certainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course she did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe also wanted confirmation that the embryo transferred to you was the Lawson embryo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were other patients undergoing procedures that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin prickled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere samples mixed up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot according to the final test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there was a concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVale discovered a labeling discrepancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow serious?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSerious enough that the clinic should have notified every affected patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid they?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the tests suggested the pregnancies matched the intended genetic sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPregnancies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I caught the plural.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many women became pregnant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She closed the notebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing material processed during the same cycle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere my embryos involved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said identifiers were reassigned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much later?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty-two months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould one of Mom\u2019s embryos have been transferred to someone else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My knees weakened.<\/p>\n<p>Michael stood beside me, not touching me.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, I wished he would.<\/p>\n<p>I hated that I wished it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Harris become involved?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia answered more readily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel discovered the irregularities during an internal audit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Jake\u2019s birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted to report Vale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour father intervened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believed disclosure would destroy your family and the clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich mattered more to him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia\u2019s silence answered.<\/p>\n<p>Michael asked, \u201cWas the ethics investigation connected?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it went nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the newspaper article.<\/p>\n<p>No patients harmed.<\/p>\n<p>A public statement built over buried evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did Harris stay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo monitor the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat consequences?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia opened the notebook again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was particularly concerned about consanguinity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I already understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelated biological parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThomas was your mother\u2019s uncle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat increases genetic risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotentially. The degree matters. It does not guarantee illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why Grandma told me to get screened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy wait until I was grown?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause she refused disclosure while you were a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in 2008?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia\u2019s expression became grave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only know what Daniel told me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was contacted by Margaret after your overdose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the hospital found abnormalities while treating you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat abnormalities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScarring and a lesion near the old retrieval site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I touched my abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas it dangerous?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel believed another pregnancy could increase the risk of severe bleeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo sterilization was medically reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer mattered.<\/p>\n<p>I did not want a false villain where medicine had genuinely been necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you were stable enough that permanent decisions should have waited for your informed consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael shut his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, \u201cDid Harris know my signature was forged?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho forged it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid my mother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Vale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVale was not physically at St. Matthew\u2019s that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That removed one possibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was genetic testing ordered?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel wanted to compare your tissue, Jake\u2019s sample, and archived clinic material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo prove what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked toward Jake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the records had not been altered in a way that concealed another genetic source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother genetic source?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhose?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was what he was trying to determine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My mind returned to the missing page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Margaret do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe stopped the test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Daniel that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said she told him the truth would destroy more than one family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sentence hung heavily.<\/p>\n<p>More than one family.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the two missing embryos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere there other children?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Wynn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She opened the notebook to another page.<\/p>\n<p>Two numbers were written beneath my treatment code.<\/p>\n<p>E7-A.<\/p>\n<p>E7-B.<\/p>\n<p>Both had dates beside them.<\/p>\n<p>Dates nearly two years after Jake\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are those?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe they were the reassigned embryo identifiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere did they go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne was marked transferred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My heart stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recipient name was removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the second?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReleased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does released mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransferred out of storage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo another clinic?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know which?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jake whispered, \u201cSo I could have biological siblings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia looked at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought the worst discovery had already arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Then Patricia turned one more page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed from exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course there is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to a handwritten notation beside E7-A.<\/p>\n<p>Successful pregnancy reported.<\/p>\n<p>The room became silent.<\/p>\n<p>Jake stared at the words.<\/p>\n<p>Michael lowered himself into his chair.<\/p>\n<p>I could barely speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was another child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patricia corrected me gently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was at least one other successful pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing my embryo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the notebook is accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeaning my egg and Thomas\u2019s sperm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My son looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, perhaps only a few hours away, there might be another person conceived from the same hidden arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Not merely Jake\u2019s half-sibling.<\/p>\n<p>Genetically, potentially his full sibling.<\/p>\n<p>And biologically, another child created from my body without my knowledge.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=25845\">Click here to continue reading: PART 11: One Missing Embryo Had Become a Child, and the Date in Patricia\u2019s Notebook Led Us Back to the Hospital My Father Controlled<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Wynn lived in a small brick house at the end of a quiet road bordered by pine trees. Michael drove. Jake insisted on coming. I did not argue. 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