Speaking Different Languages
For me, sometimes it feels like I am living in multiple worlds since my NPE* discovery. How differently I share my DNA discovery truth with people is…
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Cousin Kate
This is my NPE story of discovering in 2015 that my Dad was not my biological Dad. If you’d like to follow along, I encourage you to…
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A New Medical History
I had a doctor’s appointment yesterday with a new eye doctor. I was nervous. He is a specialist. Nine years ago, at age 50, when I…
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Losing a Tree
For several years after I found out I wasn’t my Dad’s biological daughter, I couldn’t even look at his tree anymore. It was literally a full stop. …
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Telling the Girls
I knew that eventually, I had to tell our girls about my DNA discovery. This was about their DNA, too. I had made the decision not…
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The Acceptance of Not Learning More
I wish I could tell you that now that the ice was broken with Mom about who my biological father was, that she opened up and shared…