19 People Who Died Thinking They Took Their Secrets To The Grave…Only To Be Revealed After Their Death
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“In 2009, I got a Facebook message from a guy saying, essentially, ‘Hi, I think we have the same dad.’ My dad died in 2004. I knew my dad had been married way before he met my mom, but none of us knew he had a son that he abandoned. When the baby was 6 months old, he left to join the army, never seeing his son again. So I have a half-brother about 20 years older than me.”
“Since I was the first to find out, I was tasked with telling my mother. I called her up, and she basically said, ‘Meh, your dad was bound to have some more skeletons in the closet that we didn’t yet know about.’ The whole thing makes me incredibly sad when I think about it. Sad for this guy who didn’t have a dad (he had been looking for him on and off since he was 17). But also sad for my dad that he carried this secret with him for so long and died without ever having told anyone. It must have haunted him.”
