The man Mariska Hargitay called dad wasn’t her biological father — here’s who really was

He was the father who had been there.

He raised her.

He provided stability after the death of Jayne Mansfield.

He was woven into the ordinary memories of childhood that create a relationship between parent and child.

That made the possibility of a different biological father emotionally complicated from the beginning.

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