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Well, I guess I have a brother I never knew about!
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Today I recieved some of the most shocking news in all of my 17 years. I overheard my real dad (who is divorced from my mother, but we maintain regular contact) talking to this girl in the hairdressers, he knew from who knows where about his kids. He starts saying "well, these 4 are mine (my brothers and I), and my fiance has triplets," and then it came. "And I also have a 26 year old son that I have lost contact with."
My jaw went fucking slack, and I desperatly surveyed my brain for some logic. Maybe he was joking around? I chimed in with an "excuse me? What other kid?" Thats when it hit him. He sat down and tried to explain himself. He said, "I had a boy before I met your mother, with a girl who I havent seen in around 20 years." My dad is a pretty laid back guy, but this was serious. From there I told him that we should talk later, becasue the crowded hairdresser was not an appropriate place for a discoverey of that magnitude. I am 17 years old, and all my life I have not known about this brother of mine.
I cannot explain why, but I havent had the courage to bring it up again with him, ANd I guess I can just go to NS for some sort of mentalp guidance regarding this heavy situation.
Thanks
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Wow. But it won't really effect your life will it?
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Have you spoken to him yet?
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there are people that can find people like that, idk google it
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Same thing happened with me but i was much much much younger, about 5, when i found out. Now hes one of my close friends
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Yo man i feel you, I have three brothers that I never knew about until I was 12 then they entered our lives and fucked everything up. so I hope yours aren't douchebags
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do you think he knows that you exist?
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thats kinda cool i found out my dad was married to someone else before my mom but only for a ittle bit
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aka private eyes. I really want to get into the biz but i'm not sure how. I think it'd be a sick job, you'd just drink all day and like stakeout houses and follow people and run plates and background checks and shit and just dig up mud ya know. an ill job indeed.
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let me just step back from the subject and say this thread is going to be epic
12th
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how long ago did this happen?
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don't smoke to cope with problems, because then that will lead to other problems. smoke to enjoy and party.
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dude i had this happen to me when i was 15, i'm 19 btw but anyways one afternoon my mom sat me and my 3 other syblings down and was like you have an older sister who is 25, i thought it was wack.... i mean my cousins who i'm really close with knew about her and she used to baby sit them but never talked to me, i dunno when i finally met her she was really nice did a lot of stuff with my younger sister, but that only lasted 6 months and she never really sees us any more, i only hear about her now when shes in trouble or needs money. i hope its differnt for you man and you get to meet him and what not, i wouldnt have your hopes too high remember it'll be someone who has been living his life with out the intervention of you, but maybe thats cause your parents didnt want you to see him, or maybe he just never really liked your dad, best of luck though with it, i'd say ask your dad where he is or who he is... i'm sure now he realized he needs to tell you.
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that would be crazy... and not really a nice way to find out,
you should really try talking to him about it, or if you dont want to jsut get the guys name and call him up or something. always fun telling a total stranger your a yunger brother they've never met.
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that would be mad weird for the older brother if his parents had a baby and didnt tell him
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crazy shit yo. do reverse look up or someshit
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sounds like an average case of Rednecks.
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well if rory here is 17 and his brother is 26 and their father has lost contact with him and hasnt seen his brothers mother for 20 years. then his brother would have been 9 when he was born and thats 3 years after his father lost contact with his mother making him 6. so i wouldnt be too suprised if his older brother didnt know about him.
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nailed it, but that's really cool to have a brother than you didn't know about in a way. My mom was adopted and she fianlly met her real dad last year but he recently passed. It was a great experience for her to know the truth.
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think what the hairdresser was thinking.
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That ALMOST confused me...good job!
There doesn't seem to be any real contribution here...so I will just say that you should decide whether or not you want to meet your brother. IMO - I think you should. You're blood after all. Take the chance, you could be blessed with the best big brother you could ask for. And definitely speak to your dad. You're old enough now to handle a situation such as this.
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hahaha, ok, Hansel. smoke for whatever reason you choose to smoke- it isn't your place to judge someone you don't know or try to tell them how to enjoy something that is so personal.
ANYWAY, i don't have any real advice because i honestly don't think i'd be so torn up about it, but i hope you two meet, flowers bloom, and you run off into the sunset holding hands.
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hmmmm, thats weird. i can why youd be shocked that he never told you, but its not like he cheated on your mom.
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thats actually almost good news. brothers are cool, and i think that it would be nice to have another brother, because i don't see mine too much anymore, because he is done with college, and has lived on Cape Cod for a while. i visited him once, and he lives in such a nice place. he thinks he is moving out to Jackson Hole this winter, which would be awesome, because i could go live with him for a week when i get feb. or april break.
maybe he lives in some awesome place, and will let you live with him for a while when you have a break from school or during summer. go be a man and talk to your dad.
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We just found out something like that a few years ago, my grandpa had 2 kids after him and my grandma divorced so my dad has a half sister and half brother that no one knew about for like 25 years
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it would be hard to hide. they would have to hide the mom for like 7-4 months of pregnancy.
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Well, I guess I'll add a story of my own...
I was about 13 or 14, and one day my dad sat me and my sister down at the table. My dad and mom are still married by the way.. unfortunately. So he says how we have a brother (half-brother, to be correct) because one day when I was about 6 or 7 my dad went to a party and he hooked up with his old "high school sweetheart". Well apparently they were both drunk and didnt use protection so now I have a brother named Andrew. Whats worse is, this slut that he fucked has 3 kids all from different dads and the other 2 refuse to pay child support (we pay bout $5 grand a year), yeah I didn't talk to my dad for like 2 weeks after that.
fuckin' idiot.
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thats insane bro...
whats up wit your dad not tellin you bout him for 17 yrs??
that seems pretty sketch to me
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haha
but really dude. thats pretty heavy
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wow man, i would be pretty excited...but i don't know how i would actually accept it that hes really my bro
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ya thats weird, like last year i found out my mom was married before to some guy before she had me, but she didnt go into any detail.. so hopefully she didnt have a kid
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Isnt that only like a half brother though?
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Yeah, like last year, my dad got a call on the phone from a brother he didn't know he had. It was pretty cool to find it out and stuff.
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maybe your dads other son is Jonathon taylor thomas... that would be kinda cool?
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no because brad was the real star of the show....
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It must clearly be something that your father isn't proud of, and well...it seems weird that he would never tell you. Anyway I am sure that has been said
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