Re: PRIVATE.
I'm not sure if he was real. More like a story I was programmed to believe?
There's Lt Commander Data, an android who served on the Starship Enterprise. He painted a portrait called "Daughter" that looked like me, like I was his design. I never got to see it, and he died about a decade before I was born or would have been born.
Then there's whoever made me, but I don't know anything about them.