A man discovers the truth about his father's secret after receiving a letter about a potential inheritance. The letter leads him to his long lost aunt.
Before he went into surgery for a brain tumour, my brother, Chris asked our father Eric if there was anyone he could contact. ‘If I die,’ my father replied, ‘it dies with me’. It was January 1976 and I was 12 years old. This was the first hint that my father, who died less than a week later, had a secret that he would take to his grave. 50-odd years later, I now have the truth – I have a long lost aunt .
It started when I received a letter saying that they had been asked to trace relatives of a recently deceased lady from England, and that they believed I was a potential beneficiary to her estate. It also asked if I was able to provide proof of being a child of Eric Booth, and asked if I could get in touch with them. I ignored them initially, as I didn’t know the sender. But when my daughter was contacted too, I went back to read i
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