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Older Sister?

Bainsey

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Hi,

About 12 months ago, my dad told me something quite shocking. I may (!) have an older half-sister, that I never knew about until now!

I am 24 years old at the moment. I was born when my parents were 19.

My father is not a Christian by the way. He is a big aetheist.

Anyhow, he was telling me that when he was 17, he had sex with this girl at a party. Apparently lots of other guys had sex with her too, around this time too. Anyhow, apparently he didn't see that girl after that party, however, about 12 months later this girl was reportedly going around with a new born baby girl trying to find her father, so she could get child support payment out of them.

My father, not wanting to be responsible, and not wanting to have anything to do with the girl, basically made himself unavailable and unreachable (e.g. probably moved house, etc). Apparently this woman made a few more attempts to try to find my father, and my father avoided her like the plague, and she never made contact with him.

My father got married to my mother when they were 19 and had me, and when they were 22 they had my brother.

To this day my father still isn't sure whether that baby was his daughter or not, and he probably doesn't want to find out. His friends reported that the baby looked nothing like my father, so it may not be my father's daughter at all, afterall. Apparently this girl did sleep around a lot!

Anyhow, I am kind-of curious, but kind-of cautious at the same time. Do I want to meet this girl to see if she is my half-sister, or should I just leave it? My father probably wants me to just leave it, but I don't know. She would probably be about 26 or 27 years old now. I don't really mind either way, so I might just leave it alone.
 

bliz

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It is beyond me why your father would discuss this topic with you without knowing if he was the father of this child or not. He has placed a burden on you that you should not have to carry. I expect that he may have felt better telling someone, but you were very much the wrong person to tell.

Babies do not necessarilly look like their biological parents, especially when they are babies. Apperances really don't mean anything.

Since you are content to leave the situation alone, I would advise tht you do just that.
 
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