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<blockquote data-quote="hh1" data-source="post: 2409466" data-attributes="member: 146541"><p>[USER=140811]@urbanracer[/USER] I didn't discover family but they discovered my Dad. He'd been told he was orphaned but in fact his mother was committed to an institution after his father left her in London and moved with another woman to Coventry, where they had five children. So my Dad discovered, at 61, that he had all these half-siblings, and he met his full sister (who was ten years older than him and had left the family before his parents disappeared). So I have cousins and half aunts and uncles I never knew existed. My Dad was actually very sad that he didn't meet his father, who only died a few years before one of my cousins traced the history and found him. I'm so sorry you didn't meet yours either, that's tough, but hopefully it'll be good to meet with some of your newly-discovered relatives!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hh1, post: 2409466, member: 146541"] [USER=140811]@urbanracer[/USER] I didn't discover family but they discovered my Dad. He'd been told he was orphaned but in fact his mother was committed to an institution after his father left her in London and moved with another woman to Coventry, where they had five children. So my Dad discovered, at 61, that he had all these half-siblings, and he met his full sister (who was ten years older than him and had left the family before his parents disappeared). So I have cousins and half aunts and uncles I never knew existed. My Dad was actually very sad that he didn't meet his father, who only died a few years before one of my cousins traced the history and found him. I'm so sorry you didn't meet yours either, that's tough, but hopefully it'll be good to meet with some of your newly-discovered relatives! [/QUOTE]
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