Well, today I think I had the biggest surprise of my life. I learned that I have an older brother. Let's let that sink in ... I am 28 years old and I am learning for the first time that I have a brother who is 38.
My mom just told me this morning that when she was 20 years old (1968) that she got pregnant, moved to Rhode Island, gave birth, and gave the baby up for adoption. I had known that my mom lived in Rhode Island for a while, but I never expected that it was so that she could do what she did.
Before Friday, the only two people that knew about this were my grandmother and my father. On Friday (maybe it was Thursday, I don't think