Carlo Giambarresi is an artist whose work has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. He has studied at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. He lives in Sardinia.
Sitting on a cot in the emergency room, I filled out paperwork certifying myself as the responsible party for my own medical care—signed it without looking, anchoring myself to this debt, a stone dropped in the middle of a stream.
Perhaps what’s closer to the truth is that single adoptive fathers are a parental rarity, and the social stigma around them displaying overt, touch-based affection is not an issue for mothers or more traditional fathers.