# Family secrets **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-secrets/954220 "2021-11-12T01:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-secrets/954220/15 "2021-11-12T20:42:49Z")
Here you go… > [@I just found out that Darth Vader is my father.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-that-darth-vader-is-my-father/634466): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-secrets/954220)._