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    AndGodSpokeMaggie Lange
    9/08/13 12:06pm

    Remember when Oprah's half sister found her? Her reunion show was sad yet heartwarming. Oprah said her half sister could have sold her out to the media years ago as so many have done before, but she didn't. She went directly to Oprah. Later, they confronted Oprah's mom because Oprah never officially knew about her half sis growing up. Oprah's mom was nonchalant about it. Oprah helped her sis get a new house in a fancy neighborhood and now she's in college. OMG. Tears everywhere. I'm interested to hear about this author's reunion with her half sis. Oprah better get on that.

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      WiliJAndGodSpoke
      9/08/13 12:19pm

      Oprah put Wild in her book club last year too. WEIRD.

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      HellephantWiliJ
      9/08/13 12:25pm

      What if Oprah is Strayed's half-sister!!!!?

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    AngelamermaidMaggie Lange
    9/08/13 3:29pm

    Allow to chime in with my own story - when my father was a young and single solider, he got his teenage girlfriend pregnant. Teenage girlfriend's father drove my father away from his daughter, and when she gave birth, she gave the baby girl up for adoption.

    When my father met my mother afterwords, he told her that he'd had a daughter put up for adoption, but nobody else knew. He swore my mother to secrecy. My brother and I were not told about our half-sister as we grew up.

    In 1996, my half-sister went looking for her birth parents. First she found her mother, the ex-girlfriend who'd since married and had three sons. Then she wrote a letter to my father, who replied back with some information but clearly didn't want a relationship. He did mention that he'd gotten married and had a son and a daughter.

    After my half-sister found out that our father had died in 2006, she searched for us. She found our mother on Facebook, introduced herself, and our mother was finally free to call me up one night and tell me that I had a long-lost half-sister ... who happens to live three hours away from me. We're now best friends. :-)

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      OortCloudMaggie Lange
      9/08/13 10:03pm

      One day a high-school class in Kansas was assigned In Cold Blood. A boy in the class freaked out as he figured out one of the perps was his father.

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        raincoasterOortCloud
        9/09/13 5:39am

        Really? Why have I never heard that before?

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        OortCloudraincoaster
        9/09/13 12:04pm

        Because it was on a radio interview with one of the In Cold Blood case detectives in KC. My guess is you don't live in KC and didn't happen to be listening that day. The detective also talked about Capote taking him to gay bars in KC for shits and giggles.

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      HoorayBeer!!Maggie Lange
      9/08/13 11:50am

      The cynical side of me wonders if the point of publicizing finding her long lost sister is just a way to sell extra books.

      Maybe it's just too early on Sunday and I'm grumpy. I should have this reaction instead, "Dawwwwww"

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        noodles_nycHoorayBeer!!
        9/08/13 11:58am

        It's one thing to find your long lost sister through a DNA site like 23andMe.

        It's quite another to have so much in common, that your long lost sister was drawn to your book just by its cover, and sensed you through your own words so strongly that she emailed you.

        I think it's a wonderful story.... even if it does end up helping sales.

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        Hey Chief BenderHoorayBeer!!
        9/08/13 12:19pm

        Nope. I never heard of this book, now I have and sort of want to read it. You aren't cynical. Just realistic.

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      jaytingleMaggie Lange
      9/08/13 1:28pm

      "she said she sat bolt upright in bed"

      How cliché. I guess that's why her sister is the writer in the family.

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        HellephantMaggie Lange
        9/08/13 12:05pm

        Similarly, after reading Keith Richards's biography, I recognized him as my brother. He has yet to respond to my emails.

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          TVs_FrankHellephant
          9/08/13 1:49pm

          Was it the fact that drugs don't kill you either that tipped you off?

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        raincoasterMaggie Lange
        9/09/13 5:36am

        And somewhere warm, Steve Jobs nods his head and wipes away a tear...

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          PöòtMaggie Lange
          9/08/13 11:45am

          "I have made.... Vague attempts to discover you."

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            Pajamajeans4meMaggie Lange
            9/08/13 5:04pm

            I would be exactly 0% surprised to discover that I have a spattering of half siblings throughout the northeast corridor. The number of shitty dad stories on here makes me think twice about ever marrying.

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              Gary Michael PorterMaggie Lange
              9/08/13 3:04pm

              The thought has occurred to me that, given the sexual mores of the '70's and sealed adoption documents, it's entirely possible I could have fathered a child during a one night stand and never known about it.

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