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LOYAL. KIND. PERSISTENT. I grew up in a small resort town on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan, a community of about 8,000 year-round residents. I’m the youngest of seven […]

RESILIENT. EMPATHETIC. CURIOUS. Do you know who the favorite is in your family? If you don’t, NEWSFLASH—it’s likely you. As the sixth of seven children, I always believed I was

EVOLVING. RESILIENT. HOPEFUL. I took an Ancestry DNA test, and my world was flipped upside down when I got my results July 26, 2021. Oddly enough, I finally decided to purchase

HEALING. GENERATIONAL. TRAUMA. :::Trigger Warning::: This true story contains incidents of abuse, rape, and incest.::: My maternal great grandfather was a Grand Imperial Wizard in the KKK. After he was

COURAGEOUS. CARING. GRIEF STRICKEN. For nearly 43 years I lived a lie. I had no clue. My dad that raised me was also clueless. My mother claims she did not

CURIOUS. RESILIENT. CHEERFUL.  Being a lifelong genealogist, I was super excited to DNA test at Ancestry. When I got my results back in September 2012, I didn’t notice anything unusual. 

TRUTH TELLER. PERSISTENT. INTUITIVE. So much of my childhood was confusing and made no sense. They said this, and yet my reality was that. Was I the only one who

LOYAL. FUNNY. DETERMINED. I had no idea that when I resigned from a position I enjoyed, my life was on the verge of changing in a way I never saw

UNBREAKABLE. EMPATH. ADVOCATE. My family of origin consists of two older sisters who are 10.5 and 8 years older than me—where I grew up much like an only child with