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The Atlantic on 2019-05-06 13:00

Dear Therapist: My Stepson Has a Long-Lost Half Brother. Should I Tell Him?

His mother had to give up her first boy for adoption, and she never told her second son. I don’t know whether I owe him the truth.

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