Jen Poyant and “The more I saw how different my dad was, the more I realized how much he had been hiding. And the problem was the hiding. The problem wasn’t who he ended up with.” Credit...Illustration by Brian Rea Julia Stoller loved her dad. But she never wanted to be him. He was a rule follower, he was so serious, and he was so straight. Then, when Julia was in her 20s, she got a phone call that completely changed her idea of who her father was.