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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: The Cheerios Effect: André, Jonathan & Raphaëlle’s Story [Watch (HLS stream): The Cheerios Effect: André, Jonathan & Raphaëlle’s Story](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wNTwnR0T.m3u8) (2:55)  _Published 2014-10-06. The Cheerios Effect: André, Jonathan & Raphaëlle’s Story_ --- Jul 27, 2023 5:21 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The Tiger Effect](/video/nmlkPM4Q/) ### The Tiger Effect [Cheerios Labeled As Gluten-Free May Contain Wheat](/video/19QyyXra/) ### Cheerios Labeled As Gluten-Free May Contain Wheat [New Peanut Butter Cheerios presents: #HowToDad](/video/L8f1OJ96/) ### New Peanut Butter Cheerios presents: #HowToDad --- ## Transcript Most of my life, I thought that it was, it will never be possible to ever, to have a child, given that I'm gay. [ MUSIC ] So some friends of ours organized a blind date. Bu I was nervous. [ LAUGH ] You know. But. You know, never, binding's never work usually. I believe, it was my first one anyway. So, when I saw [ UNKNOWN ] at first glance, I'm like, oh my god, you know. He did that to me. Exactly. Just a little wink. And I thought, oh, it's him. It was an immediate connection. Yeah. We, we couldn't keep all of this Luck and love for ourselves. We, we needed to share. So, the idea of becoming a dad was really increasing with time, basically. Before that it wasn't an option. But now in 2014, it's a possibility. [ MUSIC ] I was at work and I got a phone call. It said Andre I've got a proposal. I've gotten a beautiful little girl to introduce to you and Jonathan. Are you still interested? Got off work. We rushed in the shower. We had like ten minutes to get ready, but we wanted to be clean, we wanted to be handsome. We wanted to be all set, all ready to meet. Our girl. Mm. She was four. Five pounds. She was, yeah. Tiny. Almost automatically [ UNKNOWN ] and I started crying. We just cuddle her and then we, we were a family. We fell in love instantly. [ MUSIC ] She gave me Raphael and I say to Raphael dad is here. That is here now. And it was the first time I, I said, I said that. With the program it, it was a risk, if Affelle can go in her family. Can go back in her, in her biological family. Now she's really cool. She has love, she's confident and people outside will have problem with that, they gonna try to put doubt in their head and you know we have, we, we, we gonna have to fight with that. So we, we, we were hesitating like do we, do we calls ourselves Dad. If Raphael have a problem with, to have 2 dads, I see it's not gonna be our fault. Because, I don't have confidence in myself for all my life, but for this, I know. We're good parents. Being a dad, we work. 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