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Donna smirked. �Your father�s attorney is named Petie?�
�Peter, really, but I�ve never called him that. We�ve known each other since we were diapers. What�s wrong with �Petie�?�
�Well, for one, it�s the name of a third of the pet birds in the world,� Donna said.
�The other two thirds being what? I mean, since you seem to be so up on the names given to domesticated birds,� Sam said.
�One third �Petie�, one third �Polly�, and one third of names that actually take some originality on the part of the owner,� Donna said.
Sam rolled his eyes. �That�s quite the generalization,� he said. �So� actually, there�s one more thing that I need to tell you, and also that I�m going to need you to help me with because I�m completely out of my depth here.�
�Hit me.�
�Okay.� Sam took a deep breath. �It turns out that there was one other person in the car. Who is genetically not entirely dissimilar to me.�
Donna frowned. She knew that Sam�s family wasn�t large�his father, his mother, and apparently a half-sister�and he would have said something if his mother was in the car as well, though, considering how she had forbidden Mr. Seaborn to ever come anywhere near her ever again, Donna couldn�t really see why she would be in a car with �the other woman� and the child that had resulted from the affair. �Run that one by me one more time.�
�Yeah, this is the part that I�m having trouble with, too. I always knew that there was the possibility that my father had another kid out there. Not just since the affair, but before that, I knew it was always a possibility because he was� well, a man-slut, for lack of a better term, in his college years,� Sam said. Donna smiled weakly. �So I always sort of assumed that somewhere along the line a kid would show up, somewhere.�
�O�kay�� Donna said slowly.
�See, the thing is... I want kids. You know that. That�s why I was with Lisa for so long. I thought that if we could stay together long enough to have kids the rest of the whole marriage thing would come together,� Sam said. Donna nodded. They had spent more than a few nights on the campaign trail talking about Patrick Trenton who was better known by the Senior Staff and their assistants under the moniker of �Dr. Freeride� and Lisa Sherborne who would never be �Sherborne Seaborn�. �And then I find out that I have a little sister, and I guess I always assumed that the kids that my dad had would be older than me, and that if I ever had a younger sibling I would be around to watch them grow up and, you know, be a part of all that.�
�Of course.�