My Mother-in-Law Claimed Our Daughter Couldn’t Be Her Son’s Because of Her Blue Eyes and Blonde Hair — Then a DNA Test Exposed a Truth That Predated Our Marriage

“Their coloring shifts.”

“Mm,” Patricia answered. “We’ll see.”

That “we’ll see” stayed in our house for eight years. It moved into the corners of every birthday party. It sat down at every Christmas dinner. It hung on the wall next to the framed photos Patricia liked to study aloud.

“Caleb had the darkest little eyes,” she would say, holding up his baby continue reading …