It was with that in mind that I recently came across three old Reddit posts (two posts from three years ago, and one from a year ago) where people shared the wildest things they discovered about themselves or their families after taking a DNA.
"I have an uncle that was put up for adoption. He contacted my grandma and she thought he was going to extort her (my grandparents are well-off). Turns out he's a multi, multi-millionaire on his own. They still have limited contact, though my dad has reached out and formed a relationship. Apparently, they look exactly alike and have the same personality (which sounds kind of stupid now that I'm writing it out, but they're only half-siblings)." - RolandDPlaneswalker
"We got a call from a second cousin that she had been contacted by a man who was looking for my mom or relatives of my mom. This guy and my cousin matched as cousins and he had a name from his birth certificate. He had been adopted at birth. Turns out my mom was married before she was married to our dad. Her first husband was an abusive a-hole and they had separated. She got pregnant and went to another state and had this baby and put him up for adoption." "None of us (my generation) ever heard about this, the big family secret. This was in 1948 when being an unwed mother was not a thing you did. So my half-brother is 10 years older than me and we both have the same first name. We are both veterans. He in Nam, me a Cold War-era vet. We have been writing to each other for about two years now. Very much a trip." -[deleted]
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