tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post1782257240679281592..comments2024-03-28T02:06:49.582+00:00Comments on In this life: Fiction and stranger than thatPam http://www.blogger.com/profile/12641269043817163165noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-72612156463601098822016-01-10T10:49:40.712+00:002016-01-10T10:49:40.712+00:00So did you keep it to yourself that you knew when ...So did you keep it to yourself that you knew when he didn't? Frustrating these questions we can't ask people who've died.<br /><br />I've a German friend, quite elderly now, who found out quite late she'd a Norwegian half-brother from the war years, somewhat younger than her so conceived while her father was married to her mother, but away from home of course. The weird thing was her sister had met him years before without knowing at a party in the town where they were both studying, and was struck by how much like their other brother he was.<br /><br />I used to rather like the Proclaimers, but I'm not a great fan of musicals really.<br /><br />A belated happy New Year to you and yours!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-29963323266040601792016-01-09T10:27:35.538+00:002016-01-09T10:27:35.538+00:00My older sister was adopted. When she died,I disco...My older sister was adopted. When she died,I discovered not only that my older brother didn't know - a mystery to me as my mother, as I remembered, talked about it quite openly, but she hadn't told her husband (he'd been told by my father before they married). Subsequently, her daughter didn't know until they reistered the death and it was an awful shock. What made it even odder is that my sister and her husband adopted a child, my nephew, and he was told byt didn't know his mother had the same experience. Jeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14553005051612551946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-75011367272790656412016-01-08T10:16:04.290+00:002016-01-08T10:16:04.290+00:00So interesting Pam and awakened memories of secret...So interesting Pam and awakened memories of secrets held by people who should not in the normal course of things have had anything to do with these intimate facts. In one case an unlikely co incidence involving some hitch-hikers my then boyfriend and I picked up in Oxford on our way back to my parent's house, revealed to me the knowledge of our young lodger's daughter being cared for by her mother in Wales while she trained in London to be a florist. It was a huge relief to her that I knew and out came the baby photos. It was so sad. She could have told my mother who would not have turned a hair.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-90632258018544551582016-01-07T00:12:40.253+00:002016-01-07T00:12:40.253+00:00Ah yes, the world is full of those stories -- I...Ah yes, the world is full of those stories -- I'll bet more than we think. Just off hand, I can think of two among my cousins -- secrets that were kept -- one discovered when the cousins were teens and the other -- still a secret and the children involved are now teens. Such an interesting post Pam -- I can just imagine the fun the three of you had watching the film and discussing!Thimbleannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03650582809426872051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-89490189623911434622016-01-06T10:26:01.745+00:002016-01-06T10:26:01.745+00:00So many family secrets and untold stories from the...So many family secrets and untold stories from the days when respectability was to be upheld and shame, from whatever, avoided at all costs. I worked in social work for over thirty years and, even then, came across heartbreaking situations.love those cupcakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251676130165434278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-65794387484816900652016-01-06T02:05:14.568+00:002016-01-06T02:05:14.568+00:00My mother-in-law was adopted from Canada(Edmonton,...My mother-in-law was adopted from Canada(Edmonton, Alberta) and I just sent away for whatever records I can get. It appears, through my daughter's DNA and research, that she was Scottish/Scandinavian(probably Norwegian, according to the people whose DNA match hers). My family history is boring, but my husband's side is full of mysteries and twists and turns, as well as half-siblings.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17197599882756386184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-87330455997733595732016-01-05T23:54:48.583+00:002016-01-05T23:54:48.583+00:00Those were strange. I found out I had a half-brot...Those were strange. I found out I had a half-brother when I was around 8. My Mother had been married before and my brother grew up with his Father and my Grandparents. That felt really strange.Mac n' Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05732924562630675589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23379328.post-73155084162260956592016-01-05T22:20:00.867+00:002016-01-05T22:20:00.867+00:00What a tangled web we weave!
Interesting that so m...What a tangled web we weave!<br />Interesting that so many ordinary-seeming families have such stories and good to hear that the outcome is usually a positive one.<br /><br />So good to read your blog again. In my absence you have changed from Isabel to Pam.... Is there a story in that?!<br /><br />Happy New Year. DWxDartford Warblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04352965211143836326noreply@blogger.com