Soon, Heather discovered that their lives had been sometimes eerily close, without even knowing. We are only looking to meet her someday.” If you happen to be this Heather, please know we are in no way trying to disrupt your life. “All we have known was her adoptive parents named her Heather Lynn,” Heather's birth parents wrote to her, “and we are not even sure that she knows that she was adopted. Black, a graphic artist from Orange County, was located by her biological parents and three siblings after she performed a 23andMe test. Without, it’s unlikely that any of them would have ever met. Now, not only is Jeremy in touch with a half-brother and sister, Betty has also become friends with Jeremy’s aunt. She had been waiting for me to find her all these years, and prayed every day that I would.” Jeremy Harris with his adoptive mother (left) and his birth mom, Betty (right). She told me her prayers had been answered. I called her that night and we spoke for the first time. Three days later, I get a text from Betty. “I told her 46 years of info in a three-page letter and sealed it in an envelope with five or six photos of me as a baby and as an adult. “I wrote her a letter, telling her that I didn’t want anything, but my only desire was to let her know that I’d had a great life,” Jeremy says. Once she did, they found Betty’s address in the Yellow Pages. So we began the search for Betty.” Jeremy’s girlfriend dug through public records for weeks until she found the right one. “He only remembered her first name, Betty,” Jeremy says, “and that she was divorced and a nursing student at the hospital where I was born. I never had a great relationship with the man who raised me, I never got to meet the man who fathered me, and my mother has been so callous about my feelings that we are no longer speaking.” I essentially lost all of my parents at once. “I fell into a depression and for months I was very angry. “23andMe upended my life,” Katherine continues. “When I approached my mother, she showed me picture from Facebook, and I could see right away that he and I had the same smile.” because he and my mother did not have a sexual relationship at the time of my conception,” Katherine says. “The man I had known as my father confessed that he knew I was not his child. Katherine’s biological father, it turns out, was not the man she had been calling “dad” her entire life. Confusion turned to outright shock when she realized her genetic makeup did not match that of her siblings. Bay Area resident Katherine* was initially surprised when her 23andMe test results were different than what she was expecting. “My brother raped me, later I had his child.As the popularity of these affordable tests increases, so does the potential for familial upheaval across America. “I can’t ever look at my grandparents the same.” 15. “I used to go meet my dad in prison for years.” 14. “My dad may not actually be my biological father.” 13. “One of my sisters is actually my half sister.” 12. “My mom found out that her dad murdered someone.” 11. “My grandma had twin sisters who weren’t actually her sisters.” 10. “My grandfather killed himself, and I discovered the truth in newspaper.” 9. “Her father treated her more like a wife than a daughter.” 8. “My uncle let his new wife get pregnant by a sperm donor.” 7. “I was molested by him again and again.” 6. “I turned out to be someone else’s son.” 5. “My great-grandpa’s best friend raped my grandma.” 4. “We could never open the door when our parents were away.” 3. “Half of their kids were not their biological kids.” 2. Well, some of them are really disturbing. What’s the deep dark family secret that you learned as an adult?- Jessi August 9, 2018Īnd people did share some of the darkest kept family secrets.
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