My aunt, who was white, gave birth to a dark-skinned baby. Her husband, also white, left her, even though she swore she never cheated. We didn\u2019t see him again. 18 years later, I saw his name scheduled for a visit \u2014I work at a doctor\u2019s clinic. I was shocked when he came in with a young boy and a woman.<\/p>\n
What really surprised me was that the woman was also fair-skinned, while the boy was dark-skinned. I checked his file and learned they were indeed his wife and son. This confirmed that my aunt had never cheated; he must have had a dark-skinned ancestor he\u2019d never known about, and that\u2019s where those genes came from.<\/p>\n
The sad irony is that he turned his back on his first family over something he carried within him all along, only to recreate the same story years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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