Joyce and I and a mutual friend were working together at a daycare center. Joyce was a 30-year old black woman, and I was a white guy a year younger. Our friend thought that Joyce and I would be a good match, and her matchmaking skills succeeded in getting us together. Joyce and I dated for a couple of months, but our long-term plans probably meant that our relationship was going to have a limited shelf life. You should know that I am now 68 and am telling an old story.
One day, sort of out of the blue, Joyce said that she wanted to become a mother. Specifically, she wanted to have a biracial baby and asked me if I would be the father. She assured me that there would be no strings attached. She went out of her way to assure me that I would have no future responsibilities. After indicating my obvious surprise, I told her that I needed time to think about it. She said that she understood and kept telling me that she was not expecting anything from me after the birth of the baby. After thinking about this for a few days, I agreed to her proposal. Up until this point we had always used birth control.