Recently, we wrote about family secrets people found out about when they were older, and in response, the BuzzFeed Community shared some of their own family secrets.
My ex-husband's family had an ... 'open' family secret: my ex-husband's grandfather (Hank) was married to ex-husband's grandmother (Pearl) and they had six children together, but Hank also had a years-long affair with Pearl's sister Sweetie, fathering all of her seven children as well.
I had a secret brother (and a couple other secret siblings). We were only told about the brother when I went into middle school because my mom forced our dad.
My uncle's wife took her one-year-old baby into the woods and left her to die. She got away with it. Now the whole family has suffered because of this.
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