For years, he didn’t know he had a daughter. At 66, he adopted her.

Jennifer Skiles watched the clock, waiting for 7 p.m. That’s erstwhile Paul Lonardo, her biologic father, whom she’d ne'er met, said helium would call.

Skiles, present 46, had nary thought what her father’s dependable would dependable like. But she had imagined it — imagined him — much times than she could count.