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My Father Died. Then I Discovered He Had A Secret Wife He'd Hidden From Our Family.
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“My dad had just died of prostate cancer, and it turned out he’d been hiding unbelievable things from me my entire life.” The author and his dad in Shropshire, England, circa 2000. The author with his dad and mom circa 1989. "This is me in Nsuta Kyebi, Ghana, my dad's hometown, in 2023," the author (center right) writes. "I am surrounded by members of the town and the chief of Nsuta Kyebi" (center left). "This is me with my dad's wife, Irene, when I met her on my last day in Ghana in 2023," the author writes. This article originally appeared on HuffPost in June 2026.