Illegitimate Confessions

I accidentally got my high school girlfriend pregnant.

She was 15 and I was 16. We were both into the drug culture of our high school and were very commonly having unprotected sex.

I have been an uncle since the age of 3 and have had a job since I was 14. I wasn't affraid of having a child. My mother was angry, but supportive. At 16, I was ready to become a dad.

The day had come when my girlfriend would have our baby girl. I was very excited. Her parents and the rest of family blocked me from the hospital. I was told our child didn't make it.

Jump ahead 35 years and I find out through an anonymous letter. My daughter is a live and well. She is living on Long Island. She thinks I am the one that is dead.

Now I have now decide whether to tell her I am alive or make believe she doesn't exist.

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