A great story.....unfortunately these searches don't always end happily ever-after. From personal experience. A whispered secret within my family suggested that our father was not my father. Instead I was a product of an affair. I was the last of eight children and when my oldest sister suddenly passed away, I decided to search for the truth. My mother was in complete denial so all I had to go on was rumor and a possible name. After much searching, I found my biological father and as it turns out I am his only biological child. He was married and he and his wife had adopted a daughter. Our initial meeting was congenial. He told me that my mother was the only woman he had ever truly loved. He was much younger than her and couldn’t take on eight kids so he moved on. He seemed to have overwhelming guilt and despite our attempts, we were never able to make a lasting connection and went back to being strangers. My parents and he have since passed on.
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