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Robert Parent says
My father and I used Identigene. This was back in August 2010. It was our first meeting. I was waiting for him at a local Starbucks. When he arrived, and we both saw each other, we both knew what the test result was going to be.
As you can well imagine, there was some animated emotions, and this did not go unnoticed by the other patrons. It was lunch time, and Starbucks was pretty crowded. We talked for quite some time. My father is kind of loud and has a way of commanding attention, and when he said “lets do this.†and I pulled out the Identigene kit, I realized that we were going to do this in front of an audience. We took out the swaps, followed the instructions, and placed them in the respective envelops.
A woman sitting next to me began to cry. When I noticed her, I also noticed all the other faces watching us. Some with wonder and intrigue. Some were with a kind of disbelief of what they were witnessing. And like the woman who was in tears, there were people there who had become more emotional than even my father and myself! I can only imagine what they may have said upon returning to work from their lunch at Starbucks that day. I will surly never forget it.
I waited for the results to come in. It was a tough wait. Although, my gut was telling me this man was my father, and the man who I thought was my father, was not, I needed confirmation.
When the test results finally came back, I called my biological father to let him know. He was elated. The story of how I was placed in this position of discovering my true identity is 43 years long. There is allot of processing involved for sure. There is allot of “So that’s why!”
Discovering that my identity was not what I thought it was, is the single most life changing event in my life. I have been estranged with the man who I thought was my father. He also knew the tightly held secret about my real father. Getting to know my father is an incredibly positive experience for me. In the year that I have known him, I have visited often. I am his only son, and we are trying to make up for lost time. My biological father never knew he had a son, and in the short time that I have known him, he has been more of a father figure to me than anything I have experienced my entire life. I am very grateful, and my father is delighted.