“AncestryDNA says we’re close family, maybe first cousins. Here’s a short version of my story, as many of us face the deluge of new cousins coming in from the holiday wave of DNA tests. My own discovery is so overwhelming that I can’t talk about it much, even though my new half-sister has possibly saved my life by adding to my known family’s cancer history, affecting a recent medical decision. In her new book, “ Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love,” author Dani Shapiro is speaking for tens of thousands of us who are discovering that we are “NPE.” Not Parent Expected.ĭani learned that the man who raised her and who she thought was her father was not so, biologically speaking, thanks to a DNA ancestry test.
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