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I found out at 50 and it was quite a shock to find out that such a piece of news was successfully kept secret up to that point in my life. My parents and their siblings all knew but no one ever slipped up and let the secret out. After I stumbled on the truth, a couple of older cousins on my mom's side confirmed that they knew but that my parents never shared any information on how they got me.
My dad had died by the time my husband and I adopted our daughter but I always wonder how my mom could have continued to keep the secret, knowing that I had also become an adoptive mom.
It meant that the family history my doctor had taken from me was all bogus and that when I had asked my mom specific questions about family illnesses on two separate occasions (because of my own health concerns), she misled me.
Let me know if you want more.
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