Fiction/Family Secrets/Relationship

A Family Secret: My Dad Is My Mom's Brother

Jena's story #3 — I’m in agony. The painful truth about my own father — shame. Is it true?

3 min readApr 16, 2022

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III.

“The truth sets us free, but it first makes us miserable.” — Sandra Wilson.

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