A stranger's text exposes a shocking family secret
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We often talk about the importance of family – after all, they're the people who have known us our whole lives and have seen us through thick and thin. They're also usually the people who know us best.
So imagine our surprise when we heard about one woman's story in which a stranger's text message led her to uncover a shocking family secret – one that she never would have guessed in a million years.
The woman, known on TikTok as Lane, explained that she received a random text from an unknown number out of the blue. The message urged her to take an Ancestry DNA test and review her DNA matches.
The message read: 'Hi Lane. This is not a spam message. I think it's really important that you take a DNA test from Ancestry.com and review your DNA matches. Good luck.'
At first, Lane was sceptical about the whole thing (understandably), but after doing some digging and speaking with friends, she eventually decided to go ahead with the test.
She was hoping to find out that she was related to royalty or something equally as exciting (don't we all?). But what she discovered instead completely blew her mind...and turned her world upside down.
It turns out that the results of Lane's DNA test revealed that her father wasn't actually who she thought he was!
Upon further investigation (and some tough conversations with relatives), Lane learned that her mother had had an affair while in college – meaning that Lane's real father was somebody else entirely.
'I almost fell off my f**king chair,' Lane said in the now-viral clip.
When Lane learned the identity of her biological father, she wasted little time in tracking him down online and contacting him, eventually learning that he is living in California.
'He's British. He said my mum sent him a Christmas card when I was two years old, saying my name in it and that he's googled my name ever since,' she said.
And get this: he'd actually been following her online for years! He even sent an email to Lane's mother back in 2007 trying to get in touch with his daughter but never heard back from her...until now, thanks to this lucky break brought about by a mystery text message.
Since Lane's story went viral, it's been viewed more than 9 million times on the video-sharing platform, with hundreds of people commenting on how shocked they were by the whole thing.
One user wrote: 'His automatic instinct was to be with his daughter, and he couldn't be, so he did whatever he could to be in your life. I feel tears in my eyes.'
'Awwwwww,' another user commented. 'He watched over you the only way he could.'
But there was another question left unanswered: who was the mystery person who sent the text message?
In a follow-up video, Lane explained that the mysterious text message had come from her paternal cousin. It seems that the man was in a similar situation to Lane, and because he didn't want her to have to go through what he did, he reached out to her himself.
Much later, Lane was able to meet her biological father for the first time in California, and she also got to meet her two younger sisters she never knew she had!
We here at the SDC are always keen on a good heart-warming story, and this one definitely fits that bill. It just goes to show the power of social media and the surprising ways in which it can bring people together.
We hope you enjoyed this story, members. It just goes to show that you never know what sort of surprises life has in store for you!
What are your thoughts?
So imagine our surprise when we heard about one woman's story in which a stranger's text message led her to uncover a shocking family secret – one that she never would have guessed in a million years.
The woman, known on TikTok as Lane, explained that she received a random text from an unknown number out of the blue. The message urged her to take an Ancestry DNA test and review her DNA matches.
The message read: 'Hi Lane. This is not a spam message. I think it's really important that you take a DNA test from Ancestry.com and review your DNA matches. Good luck.'
At first, Lane was sceptical about the whole thing (understandably), but after doing some digging and speaking with friends, she eventually decided to go ahead with the test.
She was hoping to find out that she was related to royalty or something equally as exciting (don't we all?). But what she discovered instead completely blew her mind...and turned her world upside down.
It turns out that the results of Lane's DNA test revealed that her father wasn't actually who she thought he was!
Upon further investigation (and some tough conversations with relatives), Lane learned that her mother had had an affair while in college – meaning that Lane's real father was somebody else entirely.
'I almost fell off my f**king chair,' Lane said in the now-viral clip.
When Lane learned the identity of her biological father, she wasted little time in tracking him down online and contacting him, eventually learning that he is living in California.
'He's British. He said my mum sent him a Christmas card when I was two years old, saying my name in it and that he's googled my name ever since,' she said.
And get this: he'd actually been following her online for years! He even sent an email to Lane's mother back in 2007 trying to get in touch with his daughter but never heard back from her...until now, thanks to this lucky break brought about by a mystery text message.
Since Lane's story went viral, it's been viewed more than 9 million times on the video-sharing platform, with hundreds of people commenting on how shocked they were by the whole thing.
One user wrote: 'His automatic instinct was to be with his daughter, and he couldn't be, so he did whatever he could to be in your life. I feel tears in my eyes.'
'Awwwwww,' another user commented. 'He watched over you the only way he could.'
But there was another question left unanswered: who was the mystery person who sent the text message?
In a follow-up video, Lane explained that the mysterious text message had come from her paternal cousin. It seems that the man was in a similar situation to Lane, and because he didn't want her to have to go through what he did, he reached out to her himself.
Much later, Lane was able to meet her biological father for the first time in California, and she also got to meet her two younger sisters she never knew she had!
Key Takeaways
- A bizarre text from a stranger led a woman to uncover a shocking family secret.
- The stranger urged the woman to take a DNA test, which led her to discover that her biological father was not the man who raised her.
- The story has gone viral, with many people commenting on the incredible turn of events.
We here at the SDC are always keen on a good heart-warming story, and this one definitely fits that bill. It just goes to show the power of social media and the surprising ways in which it can bring people together.
We hope you enjoyed this story, members. It just goes to show that you never know what sort of surprises life has in store for you!
What are your thoughts?