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"This is something I never saw coming. As far as I can remember, my sister has always been my very best friend. She's the one I would contact first when I was in trouble or depressed, and she would always be there for me. If I had a million guesses, I would never have guessed this. Honestly, I'm now 53 years old, and I'm more confused about everything than I have ever been."

"My youth pastor, who was a close friend of my mother, is also a child predator and rapist. My mother thought he was such a good 'father figure' for my brother, but he sexually abused him continuously from age 9 to 15. He presided over my mother's funeral and cried. I've always felt like he put some nails in her coffin."

"When I got older, I realized it was domestic violence. I asked my grandmother about it. Turns out, their father had severe PTSD from Afghanistan and would beat the living hell out of his wife in front of the children. A few years ago, I found out that he had horrifically murdered his wife. He went in to beat one of the girls right after, and her sister shot him. Some years later, she took her own life.

I still have dreams about them. They were amazing, smart kids. I wake up in cold sweat every time. I haven't been able to find the remaining daughter on any social media. I hope she found happiness in life."

"Wife #2 says: What are you causing trouble for? He has kept us both happy and housed, and sent my two kids and your two kids to college...quit causing problems."

He spent every Christmas and every Father's Day with the Texas family. The Ohio family thought he played in an exclusive sports tournament every year, the last week of December, and that he went fishing in Canada for 2-3 weeks every June.

(He had a daughter with the Texas woman first, in 1972, came to Ohio for work, met an Ohio woman, MARRIED HER in 1974, and got her pregnant immediately, then went back to Texas and made child three in 1976, and the baby was born to his Ohio wife in 1980.)

Wife #1 divorced him shortly after. He moved to Texas, golfs daily, and hasn't spoken to her. My (now-ex) boyfriend and his sister have been to Texas several times to meet the half-siblings. They even celebrated a few Christmases and summer vacations together.

Wife #1 is in her sixties now and has a severe drinking problem following the reveal. She is slowly deteriorating from alcohol related dementia. My (ex) boyfriend is her primary caregiver, and I feel so, so, so bad for how this lady's life played out."

"If that's not enough for people to believe, my sister initiated a talk with our secret aunt, and the latter confirmed that our biological grandfather was her dad, that Grandma was her mom, and that she was born in our home state. However, when my sister asked a couple more questions, she completely dipped out and blocked my sister and everything. Then, when my sister expressed doubt to Ancestry, they said there was no chance this person wasn't my dad's sister because the gene report showed such a strong match.

We figure Grandma probably had an unexpected pregnancy, and it was taboo (or she just wasn't ready for a kid yet) enough to essentially give her up for adoption and act like nothing ever happened. So I figure, given the time period, that Aunty was probably born out of wedlock."

"When I graduated from college, my grandmother said I was the first in the family. I asked what about great grandpa, and she said, 'Oh no, he went to prison, not college.' But no one else in the family ever knew either, lol.

When they got out, they were all voted in as town councilmen. They literally had customers for life. My great-grandmother ran the store while they were in prison, and she went on to run it until she retired at 93 years old. 

Edit to add: Mom says the 'reporter' from Chicago probably worked for Kraft because that’s where the parent company was from. And only one brother actually got his face caught on camera, but the other two confessed to get him a lighter sentence — and my great-grandmother was adamant that my great-great-uncle did not roll over on his brothers. The other brothers decided to broker a deal for a reduced sentence.

And they did it to support a general strike by the dairy farmers, not just because of prices. They started shipping in Kraft cheese and milk to break the strike, so they robbed the train of Kraft cheese and milk. Problem solved.

One of the brothers (my great grandma was the second to last of 14!) who went to 'college' asked his nephew to look after his wife while he was gone, and the nephew sure did! He got his aunt (by marriage) pregnant while my great-great-uncle was in Texas."

"What was told to me was that the farming equipment and vehicles would 'just go up in flames.' In the middle of an empty field.

My understanding is that most of this happened in the '60s and '70s, and I think eventually one of my great uncles took the fall for the family and did some jail time.

But I already have a low opinion of the vast majority of the people I'm biologically related to, and I'd be willing to believe the true story could be even more depraved."

"Oh, and he raped my father when he was a teen. My aunt (his sister) didn't believe him. He used to always be at family gatherings. My aunt refused to condemn him, saying, 'He's a good provider.' The family basically made her eventually divorce him."

"The reason the baby was easily identifiable, aside from suspicious behavior, was largely due to my biological grandpa being a redhead. There weren’t too many in town, apparently."

"Her fiancé said he would raise the baby as his own, even if it was not his. So she decided to keep the baby. This made the younger brother more furious because she'd previously gotten pregnant with the younger brother's baby and gotten an abortion. So the younger brother verbally attacked her for aborting that embryo and keeping this one just because there was a chance it was her fiancé's. She was unemployed during that time, so her fiancé was paying for all of the expenses. Nine months later, she was still unemployed. She had the baby, and it ended up being the younger brother's child. They all tried to do co-parenting. The baby is three months old now, and my family member's fianceé left him for his younger brother again."

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