發佈日期:2015年1月20日
An 81-year-old Grand Rapids man has found out that he has a son.

The man had tried having kids all his life but thought it was a life goal he never accomplished.

But a letter sent by the child’s mother more than 50 years ago told him of his then 5-year-old son. That man is now 61.

It was a message believed to have been hidden by his wife for decades.

Tony Trapani, 81, said that after his wife passed away, he was cleaning out one of her old filing cabinets when he came across the letter.

Father and son only met for the first time Sunday, and Trapani said he feels like a new dad.

Samuel Childress, meeting he father for the first time, said he spend his life wondering. “I always asked my mom, I said, ‘Well what does he look like?’ She said, ‘Well, go look in the mirror.'”

The letter sent by Samuel’s mother back in 1959 is postage stamped on that date.
“I have a little boy,” it reads. “He is five years old now. What I’m trying to say Tony is he is your son. He was born November 14th, 1953.”

Childress’ mother told him that she had sent the letter but figured his father was ignoring him, he said.

Here’s where the story takes a drastic turn. Trapani claims that his wife at the time intercepted the letter and hid it in a filing cabinet for decades while the couple couldn’t conceive a child on their own.

“Why my wife didn’t tell me,” said Trapani. “I don’t know. She wanted children. She couldn’t have any. She tried and tried.”

“He’s my full son that I’ve had my whole life, but why my wife hid that letter is beyond me.”

Growing up, Childress said, it was his understanding that his father got the letter but didn’t want anything to do with him. He grew up in Pennsylvania, with meeting his father was just a distant thought.

“Just to know him now is so important to me. It’s going to fill that void,” he said.

Father and son are now catching up on a lifetime of memories, making the most out of the time they have left, knowing they can’t go back in time or dwell on the secret that kept them apart for so long








http://www.nownews.com/n/2015/02/05/1596349

NOWnews今日新聞
2015年 02月 05日  12:22

國際中心/綜合報導

美國密西根州(Michigan)一名81歲老翁托尼(Tony Trapani)整理亡妻信件,驚知自己有一位前女友所生的兒子,且目前已61歲。不料據最新DNA鑑定結果顯示,2人並無血緣關係。

據英國《每日郵報》(Daily Mail)報導,美國老翁托尼整理亡妻遺留信件時,發現一封前女友1959年寫給他的舊信,信中透露她1953年誕下一名男孩,而孩子父親正是他。

這對失散多年的父子終在1月中首次相見,而對於這埋藏逾半個世紀的祕密,托尼表示他與亡妻求子若渴,但經多年努力仍無果,無法理解妻子隱瞞的理由。而托尼現年已61歲的兒子奇德瑞斯(Samuel Childress)當時說,他始終以為遭父親遺棄,「這次重逢對我來說非常重要」。

由於重逢方式過於特異,托尼及奇德瑞斯在享受父子歡樂時光之時,仍打算進行親子鑑定,確保驚人消息屬實。

近日親子鑑定結果出爐,2人間的血緣可能性為零,托尼與奇德瑞斯皆非常震驚。奇德瑞斯表示,這個結果讓那封信書寫原因成謎。
不過,這對「父子」雖重逢時間短暫,但奇德瑞斯表示,兩人已建立感情,依舊會將托尼視作父親,而對方亦會將他當作親兒子看待。







 


 














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