My friend turns 15 and she’s told she’s adopted. Turns out both her parents died in a car crash when she was just a baby, and her uncle adopted her and raised her. He told her that both parents were dead.
A year later, a man messages her on Facebook saying that he’s her half-brother. Turns out the dad lived through the car crash and later remarried; her adopted parents were lying to her as they knew all along. The dad just didn’t want to keep her. © Spagattaca / Reddit
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