I knew that best mate's parents had to get married, but this was not my secret, so I never told. Her Dad died when she was tiny.
When her Mum died, her aunt spitefully said "well, your father wasn't your father"
It has taken some twenty years and a DNA test to prove her aunt a liar, but there is no way I could have dropped such a bombshell into the family, when she could have found it out for herself.
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