Every family has its secrets, but some are more shocking than others. These family stories shared online are so surprising, you won\u2019t believe they\u2019re real.<\/p>\n
The Story:
\nWhen I was 14, I got a Facebook message from a man named \u201cDave.\u201d He said he was my uncle, but I had never heard of him before. When I asked my parents about him, they looked scared. Every year on my birthday, he would send me a message. When I turned 18, he asked to meet.<\/p>\n
I was freaked out when I saw someone who looked exactly like me coming toward me. That\u2019s when I realized Dave was more than just a random person\u2014he told me his real name was \u201cRicky,\u201d and he was actually my dad.<\/p>\n
My mom got pregnant with me, and he went to prison for fraud. Her parents made him sign a paper promising to stay away from me. When he got out, he couldn\u2019t contact me because of the agreement, but now that I\u2019m 18, he wanted to tell me the truth.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been five years, and I\u2019m really close to him. I love him more than the man who raised me, who was always cold and distant. But my mom says she\u2019ll never forgive me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every family has its secrets, but some are more shocking than others. These family stories shared online are so surprising, you won\u2019t believe they\u2019re real. The Story: When I was 14, I got a Facebook message from a man named \u201cDave.\u201d He said he was my uncle, but I had never heard of him before. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23894,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions\/23894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}