My father died when I was 17. At the funeral home during a viewing a young lady and her boyfriend showed up, she was probably two or three years older than me.
Nobody recognized her, so she was asked why she was there, she stated she was there to see her father. My siblings and I are naturally confused, our mom is just standing there shaking her head, my uncles ask her to leave, she leaves crying in her boyfriend’s arms.
Our mother takes us to a private area and explains our father had an affair years ago and that was our step-sister. I never heard anymore about her, never learned her name, have never met her.
I would like to meet her and apologize for my family. Seeing her rejected and crying because she couldn’t even attend a viewing for her dead father bothers me to this day, and this was over 40 years ago.” © DougJHFTB / Reddit