Yes or No

Over 35 years ago, Daniel bought his high school girlfriend Penny a pregnancy test. He gave her a note asking her to circle yes or no to tell him the results. She circled yes, then disappeared from his life.

Now, after a hard life that has left him confined to an assisted living center and battling COPD, a woman named Alicia claims she is the daughter Daniel thought Penny had aborted when she left him. As they await the DNA test results to determine whether or not Daniel and Alicia are related, old truths are exposed while new bonds are formed. But always, Daniel remembers the promise of his abusive father, "Life never gives you shit without taking something in payment."

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