Who Will Inherit Joel Stein's Kid?

When picking godparents for our son, we realized blood is thick — but Wu is thicker

John Ueland for TIME

One of my first thoughts following the birth of my son Laszlo — after figuring out how to get a pizza into the hospital — was, "What happens if my lovely wife Cassandra and I die in a car crash?" I'm not sure what kind of life I thought Cassandra and I would have driving around late at night, wasted, without our child, but I wish we had worked harder to pursue it.

Still, it's possible that Cassandra and I could get into some sort of freak accident in which the TiVo remote flew out of my hand and sliced both...

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