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DNA test unravels secret mother kept hushed from daughter for 50 years
Unbeknownst to Anna, her home life and upbringing weren't what she thought it was.
Colby Maxwell
08.02.21

DNA tests aren’t just for police use – people use them to find out about their family! Many people don’t know where their ancestry can be traced to geographically and finding out can connect you with your long-running historical past! For many, it’s a wonderful endeavor that only requires a swab of the mouth. For others, however, the DNA test ends up bringing some things to light that would have never been known.

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Organizations like 23&Me and Ancestry.com offer a look into your past once they analyze your DNA from a mouth swab.

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As more people use it, more information is revealed! They are super popular right now, especially for people curious about the past, and more specifically, their past.

Anna Marie, a Delaware resident, decided to take an at-home DNA test.

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As she, and the world, would soon find out, things weren’t all as they seemed. Her brother took the same test and had 31% of his ancestry being traced back to Russia. Anna Marie had 0%.

Clues began piling up.

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She also had a cousin 400 miles away in Virginia when a nurse named Tina saw that her own tests related her to someone named Anna in Delaware. They were first cousins and neither one of them knew each other.

Finally, they learned what had happened.

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Anna’s mom got pregnant at 16 and was sent away to keep the pregnancy secret. Her parents didn’t want it going public so they did their best to keep it hidden from everyone.

The story that Anna was told as a kid was that the man she grew up with was her father.

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Even more, her “acting” father adopted her, so legally, everything was in order. He treated her wonderfully and was a great dad, but he wasn’t her genetic father, in truth. She had been told that her father was the one who raised her and that worked for her for a long time. As the DNA test revealed, however, that just wasn’t the case, biologically speaking.

When Anna sent the information to her mom, her mom knew it was time to tell her.

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Anna’s mom took her to lunch when she saw her daughter’s father’s name on some of the documents Anna was looking through. She knew it was time to tell her. The man, Cecil, was a summer fling. When Anna found out, Cecil had been gone for five years. He had a heart attack and died alone in his home.

Anna still goes to the beach where her mom and biological dad first met.

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Standing on that beach, she felt connected to a man she never knew or would have the chance to know. Cecil never married and had a small career in real estate. After that small stint, he became a traveling preacher and passed away. As NBC says:

“It’s unclear if he ever knew he fathered a child.”

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