My cousin sent me a photo of our nine-year-old daughter, Nancy, at a concert hugging a crying young man.<\/p>\n
The problem?<\/p>\n
My wife, Dorothy, had told me they were visiting her mother in the hospital.<\/p>\n
When they came home, Dorothy finally told me the truth.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five years earlier, when she was sixteen, she became pregnant with my child.<\/p>\n
Her mother took control of everything.<\/p>\n
She told Dorothy that I wanted nothing to do with her or the baby. She told me Dorothy didn\u2019t want to see me again and secretly kept the letters we both sent.<\/p>\n
Dorothy was eventually pressured into giving our son up for adoption.<\/p>\n
Years later, Dorothy and I unexpectedly found each other again, fell in love, and married.<\/p>\n
Neither of us realized the full truth.<\/p>\n
Then Dorothy recently discovered letters proving I had never known about the pregnancy.<\/p>\n
She also found a newer letter from a 25-year-old man named Ethan.<\/p>\n
He was looking for his birth mother.<\/p>\n
Dorothy contacted him and introduced him to Nancy first\u2014which explained the concert photo.<\/p>\n
Then she looked at me and said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boy my mother made me give away was your son too.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Ethan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have come,\u201d I told him. \u201cFor both of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
His chin trembled.<\/p>\n
I hugged the son I never knew existed.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five years were gone.<\/p>\n
But before he left, I pulled out a chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cStay awhile,\u201d I said. \u201cTell me about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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