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[quote=Anonymous]It is a shock when these things come to light. My own dad had a woman show up on his doorstep claiming to be his half-sister. A cousin learned of a half-sister in her teens.

My opinion - having never been through it myself, only through extended family - reach out and talk to her. FIL may not have ever known that there was a child.  Some of the meetings I've known of have turned into good relationships and fascinating insights into the lives of long-gone family members. Others have resulted in a brief meeting and then everyone going their own way, never to speak again.  But I've never heard of one having really bad results, where the people wish they'd never known.

Just keep in mind that FIL didn't even know MIL at this time, and may not ever have known about the baby. How many of us have slept with sometime, then gone on about our lives? The fact that he had a baby it isn't any sort of betrayal of the core family. It's almost irrelevant to FIL's later life, marriage and family (if he truly didn't know about it).  Try to think of FIL as human, not just "a dad".[/quote]

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