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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 412188" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Shame can take a huge toll on what is recorded. My Gpa on mom's side was adopted. It was NEVER mentioned except once my Gma let it slip that it was good he wasn't redheaded as no one was treated worse than a red headed left handed stepchild or adopted child. He wasn't a stepchild, but some of his siblings have another mother and they were treated a lot better. From what my aunt has learned, he was adopted by his birth father after the man had an affair and the woman refused to keep the child because it would ruin her. She moved away and things were not recorded. We only learned about it years after everyone but his sister was dead. My great aunt told us a lot of things that were amazing. She was a real WILD CHILD. No drugs, but some of her stories about "sparking" with this man or that one were NOT PG rated. She had a great time regaling husband and I with these stories - many my MOTHER hadn't heard. She showed me some photos taken of her in her late teens/early 20s. She was a model for a local photographer and got paid for being in ads - being a model was a very racy thing in their community and she had to work hard to talk her dad into allowing it. She didn't get married until in her 30s and she led a very adventurous life, esp in her dating life. </p><p> </p><p> NONE of that would have been told while her siblings were alive. SHe promised their father to never "shame" them by telling their kids what she had done as a young woman. She and her husband were unable to ahve kids, so it was all about not shaming her sibs' kids.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 412188, member: 1233"] Shame can take a huge toll on what is recorded. My Gpa on mom's side was adopted. It was NEVER mentioned except once my Gma let it slip that it was good he wasn't redheaded as no one was treated worse than a red headed left handed stepchild or adopted child. He wasn't a stepchild, but some of his siblings have another mother and they were treated a lot better. From what my aunt has learned, he was adopted by his birth father after the man had an affair and the woman refused to keep the child because it would ruin her. She moved away and things were not recorded. We only learned about it years after everyone but his sister was dead. My great aunt told us a lot of things that were amazing. She was a real WILD CHILD. No drugs, but some of her stories about "sparking" with this man or that one were NOT PG rated. She had a great time regaling husband and I with these stories - many my MOTHER hadn't heard. She showed me some photos taken of her in her late teens/early 20s. She was a model for a local photographer and got paid for being in ads - being a model was a very racy thing in their community and she had to work hard to talk her dad into allowing it. She didn't get married until in her 30s and she led a very adventurous life, esp in her dating life. NONE of that would have been told while her siblings were alive. SHe promised their father to never "shame" them by telling their kids what she had done as a young woman. She and her husband were unable to ahve kids, so it was all about not shaming her sibs' kids. [/QUOTE]
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