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“Many years ago, one of my brothers was accidentally killed. He had a girlfriend. For years, my mom lamented that he didn’t have at least one child so she would still have a part of him here. Well, a few years ago we all did an AncestryDNA test to see if we could find any relatives from my maternal grandmother’s side. She was a refugee from Germany who came to the US with an American family for safety during World War II. She never reconnected with any of her family again. A cousin and I had gone to Germany to research, but the village that she grew up in had been completely annihilated during the war…”
“…We met with the Red Cross there and many other officials. Nothing could be found as to what had happened to them. We know they existed; she had brought many pictures of her with her family from the time she was a baby up to her teen years, holiday gatherings, birthdays, etc. So we were hoping to find someone who remained from her family. A few months went by, and my mom got a notification that a close match had been found for a child or grandchild. I also got one that said a niece or cousin had been identified. We were certain this was a mistake because we could account for every single person in our family. To make a long story short, my brother’s girlfriend moved back to the East Coast after he died. None of us thought anything of it. She was grieving and wanted to be close to her mother. But apparently, after a couple of months, she found that she was pregnant. Keep in mind, this was the very early ’80s when OTC pregnancy tests were not a thing. By the time pregnancy was confirmed at three months, she had lost all contact with our family on the West Coast. This was also before cell phones. Also, she had been seeing another man while she and my brother were dating. Anyway, we were able to get in touch with this mystery relative via Ancestry. When we met in person, I almost fainted. She was a female replica of my late brother, and she had two kids of her own, the youngest of whom looked just like my brother’s twin. My Mom got her wish, after all, a child of the child she lost. But we never did find any of my Grandma’s family.”
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