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[quote=Anonymous]My Dad died of a heart attack when I was 11 and my brother was 9. He didn’t make much money but Thank God he paid extra on the mortgage each money for insurance because when died the house got paid off , so we didn’t have to move which would have added to the trauma. I resented my brother a lot because everyone seemed to faun over him because “ a boy needs a father figure” and I got kind of left out. We did ok though, we were actually slightly better off financially because he was retired Army ( he was 47 and this was in England) so my Mum got his full army pension, pension where he worked, plus state benefits. Oooooh and the best part......... 3 days after he died we found out that he had been married before and had 4 kids, and my Mum money told us because they all wanted to come to his funeral. Talk about a bombshell. I will say that has made me never want to lie to my kid. She is adopted and we tell her as much as we can and are as open as possible with her. I had so many questions that went unanswered because “ he wanted to wait until you were older” as an adult I think that was more her decision than my Dads but I will never know. [/quote]

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