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People Who Discovered a Brutal Truth That Shook Their World
Story 1
I went to an international school in Asia that attracted a lot of kids with very wealthy parents, most of whom would get dropped off by their chauffeur in a brand-new Mercedes. I had a scholarship, and we were working class.
I never understood why my mom would take me to school at 6 am before anyone else was even there and park the car miles away behind this big tree. She’d just tell me it was good to exercise before school. Years later, I found out she was embarrassed about our little Mitsubishi and didn’t want the other kids to pick on me if they saw we were pretty poor in comparison. © jessiehailey / Reddit
Story 2
One of my old schoolmates lived with his mother in a single-parent household. The father wasn’t around because he was in a very peripatetic line of work and didn’t come home too often.
Well, that was the official story. The actual truth, as known by parents and the school, was a long prison sentence for some kind of serious fraud, embezzlement, false accounting, etc., and the mother put her family back under her maiden name, so nobody would make the connection.
He’s out now, although I’ve never met him. © Eddie_H***er / Reddit
Story 3
3.My best friend and his wife had been trying for years to have a second child, with no luck. Then one day, he found out his wife didn’t want a second child and had been secretly taking birth control. © squirrel-phone / Reddit
Story 4
I found out while my parents were married that my dad had a girlfriend after finding a Valentine’s Day card for him from his then-girlfriend, now-wife. A few years later, I found out via her Facebook that they were engaged (having never met her), and then I found out via my aunt’s Facebook that they were married, still without her existence being acknowledged to me by my dad. © alexthenotadragqueen / Reddit
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