Family secrets

[beowulff]

Here you go…

I just found out that Darth Vader is my father.

Well, not exactly - he might be my father. OK, even that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Even so, I feel a lot like Luke must have felt. Here’s my story: I’m 52 years old. For that last 52 years, I have lived my life assuming that I had the perfect story-book family. No significant childhood trauma, folks never got divorced, sister and I got along, no family member has ever been arrested, everyone went to college, etc, etc. Until last Saturday, when at the beginning of our weekly phone call, my…