The text shattered our Sunday ritual in five quiet words. No explanation. No smiley face. Just a door slammed by phone. We drove over anyway, rehearsing every worst-case scenario.
We didn’t just walk into a house that day; we walked into a life our mother had carried alone for decades. Seeing our father’s twin at the table felt like someone had rewound time and pressed play on a different version of our family. Mom’s confession didn’t erase Dad, and it didn’t rewrite our childhood. It simply revealed how much pain she’d swallowed to keep our world steady.
Turning James away wasn’t easy, but it was the only way we knew to protect the father we’d already lost. That night, over greasy pizza and lukewarm tea, we weren’t a perfect family, just an honest one.
The shock settled into something quieter: the certainty that love had held us together long before the truth surfaced, and it would keep holding, even with the cracks now visible.
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