People Are Dropping The Dark Family Lore They Found Out About Years Later, And Holy Crap

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“It is still a family secret because my dad has no idea my brother and I know. When he was around 19, he got with the town’s most promiscuous lady, and he won the golden ticket. She got pregnant, and he paid child support until his first son was 18. He was never a part of his son’s life. He met my mom, had my twin brother and I, never looking back.”

“My mom loves to gossip, so she told my brother and me, but told us never to let my father know we know. It would kill him. When we were 19ish, my brother and I received Facebook messages from someone back in North Carolina we had never met. It was our half-brother. He looked exactly like my dad, and we found out he had cerebral palsy and was in a wheelchair. 

Not a great look for the role model I thought my dad was. Left not only a woman to be a single mother, but also a boy who was born with a disability. All my half-brother wanted was a family. To know us. But my brother and I were a bit nervous with social media being so new, and we blocked him (upon our mother’s prompting). I should find him again but I cannot remember his name.”

—Anonymous, 34, female, Arizona