This is so true.I’m through watching this channel. The stories go on and on and on, and go far too long. Few stories are ever worth that kind of time and effort.
It's Chat Ai narration. Chat Ai has very little inflection of tone, and never quite pronounces contractions properly. I will usually turn a Chat Ai narrated video off after a few seconds, but I wasn't sure about this one until halfway through.
Olga was 3, and Willhelm was 1, they were brother and sister. Judy and James were his adopted parents. And his old aunt stated that Olga was his cousin now, remamed Claudia adopted by his Aunt and Uncle and therefore his cousin now.
I agree every time I hear his voice I know it's going to be a long repetitive story and then the pictures throw you off because it tells you is the stories aren't true because the people keep
This is such a sad story! Why in the world would they seperate those precious siblings?!!!!! I'm glad that they both found the truth even if was long overdue! God bless them!❤🙏💞
Respect your elders especially Yoda he’s a Jedi and could tear you in half in his sleep if given the chance it wouldn’t be the Jedi way of course but he still could if he wanted to
Secrets hurt! Found out at 58 we had another sister. My 5 siblings and I were shocked, mom had just died. She was 48 and been looking for mother all her life. Sad, sad, sad, why the lies?
Why the lies? Because society was cruel back then and society would condemned people, neighbours gossiped, cruel gossip and added to it to make themselves feel important. There was poverty and shame, there was unkindness and misunderstanding. There was condemnation and cruelty. If one member of a family was shamed then that shame was reflected on the whole of the family and they would often be shunned. I've done a lot of family history and when indexing one set of records, in particular, I notice how unforgiving the priest (supposedly a man of God) was, and lazy. He had recorded thirty three births on two pages. Most of the births were just the child's name, date of birth and father, the bare minimal. Three had 'bastard child,' their date of birth and both the parent's names. I imagine it was so that he could shame them. Yet nearly two hundred years later they were the only children whose mother I could record. I like to think they had the last laugh. There are secrets in my family and unfortunately for the children they will remain just that, secrets.
@@beccabbea2511 Im not convinced society has changed. People are still cruel but now they do it publically on twitter, fb, tiktok etc for selfpromotion!
@@beccabbea2511 Shame? It was rife back then. My grandma turned out to be my Great Auntie's daughter; my other Grandma had two husbands not even her kids knew about and that's just a tiny bit of it all. Doing my genealogy is a nightmare!Most families have secrets like that from back then. I wonder how many siblings have married/had children together and didn't know they were brother and sister; these daze especially! (Pun intended)
The older generation and their secrets!!! It caused so much torment and grief for the ones keeping the secret. How do I know this, because I was a secret. My bio-father's family and my half brother didn't know that I existed, until I contacted them when I was 50 yrs old..
I found at 40 I was not my fathers child. Many years later I was given information on my bio father. I eventually contacted his children (grown adults). I did it in a very careful way however they refused to have anything to do with me. Even my siblings I grew up with largely cut me off when the secret came out. I find I can cope quite well - and am amazed at my bio fathers family and history. p.s. Yes, I did talk to him before he died but never actually met him.
@@susannahleigh26 I’m sorry for the way you were treated by your siblings. That had nothing to do with anything you did. It never crossed their mind of what it did to you or how you felt? 🙏
People's thinking was so screwed up back in the day! Why on earth would anyone think that was okay to separate and then lie to them clear into their adult lives? Thank God they found out the truth. Very sad story...
The discarded. We found family members in old photos and asked about them. They got in trouble, they were slightly retarded, or had a deformation of some sort. They had a baby out of wedlock They were never seen again in family photos again. They were never mentioned again. They were "removed" from the family. I have hope for genetic testing. We don't "discard" people anymore, not beginning this generation. My father specifically mentioned....regularly....that if I displeased him, I would be discarded. When I actually saw how MANY people they did this to, my blood ran cold. "Extra" female children were also discarded; but in the time I was born, that was not as easy. Did not prevent him from telling me that. I am horrified; and even more bent on meeting those other "discards." Found an unknown half brother on my own. Yes, we grew up within 5 miles of each other. This stuff has got to stop.
I completely agree! We face bad situations every day. We can't just hide them! In trying to 'protect' one person, or whatever, someone else gets hurt! I found out I had an older sister. This was kept secret because she was born out of wedlock. Then, there's the fact that I am the only blonde in my family! It has made me feel like there were more secrets! If my parents are so ashamed that they kept secrets, it doesn't say a lot about them. I learned enough about them seeing how they lived their lives. I couldn't deal with any more!
@@suruha2306 I have a feeling lately that there is more of this than we know. Remember, tho, that sometimes, due to the way DNA works, you may hark back to a past generation. (I looked, when young a lot like my maternal grandmother, but not unlike my parents.) It happens more amazingly in cases of mixed-race parentage in a person’s line. However, if old family photos reveal no one similar, you might begin to look into it. Caution is always wise, though, since you need to be prepared for possible difficult truths, and the reaction of both your family and another one to such a search and its discoveries. Some turn out very well, but step carefully. Wishing you well in every way.
Good luck. Now days, I would think people have to have a lot of money to "discard" family or "acquaintances". Back when, you just had to claim that the "discarded" was a burden on them. Financial, mentally. Etc.
I understand that the adoptive parents only wanted what was best for the both of them, however, keeping the two of them in the dark about who they really are for their entire lives was WRONG and there is NO EXCUSE for this !!!! They should have been told the truth about all of this many many years ago !!!!!!
At 14 my parents told my friend that my dad wasnt my dad. I asked about this. They said some guy named Michael Chambers is. At my dad deathbed they told me he is my dad again. My mom has been useless. Ill never know the truth
@poppypottschannelno. It is the right of the child to know. They may not understand the word adoption neither did they understand the word love. But parents told their children they love them anyway. Adoption is not a crime so you don't keep it a secret. Secrets are signs of a dysfunctional family. Many adoptive parents thought the truth would hurt the child. But the truth is the lies hurt the child.
I didn't know who my real Grandmother was until after she was long passed and I was grown. I always wondered why she treated us kids better then the woman that was suppose to be our Grandmother did that was her sister. Family secrets are really a bad idea.
People were different back then. My father was adopted by his grandparents and was 18 going into the miltary when his Mother passed. At the funeral his uncle told him to stop crying that she wasn't his mother and that his older sister was his birth mother. He left for the military and didn't return for along time.
I'm too old for all this hoo haw. My parents always said " the dog ran away...the cat ran away..the turtle ( honest) ran away" Nothing straightforward. The truth is best.👍🏼😁
Oh, could you drag this out any more??? He stopped the car, he locked it with a key. He walked slowly up the path.... OMG, just get on with it!! What he saw in the old photo was his sister Olga who had been adopted along with him, but was now known as his "cousin" Claudia. There, that saved you 20 minutes you'll never get back.
That just makes me cry so sad why do people do that. lie and keep a lie alive like that. How sad for him but its great he find answers and being with his real sister. God bless him so much.
I agree, heartwarming but nonetheless a lifetime of living a lie. Thankfully his sister was adopted into the family as his cousin. however, it has happened, children (one or more adopted) and the other never knowing about it...they met in college and fell in love. I don't care what state or country you live in, there's always a chance they'll meet and they may feel a bond, not knowing it's because they're siblings, instead being drawn to each other in love. Cruel to then tell them oops you're siblings.
@@Surftouka A lie is TELLING or WRITING a mistruth. NOT telling a lie is NOT a lie. It's, maybe in certain circumstances, an omission but it is NOT a lie! That way of looking at things is very odd. (People are truly strange, these daze. Pun intended)
@@Surftouka If, for example, I have a huge scar on my leg. If I DON'T tell you how I got the scar, how is it a lie?? If I tell you I was hit by a bus, THAT would be a lie!! (Written about true circumstances) NOT telling circumstances and/or reasons, is ABSOLUTELY NOT LYING!! To think otherwise is weird and downright pessimistic ~ some would call it paranoid. Learn some grammar and how to see things without the negativity the majority of people have now. A lie is a lie not an impression! 🙄🙄🙄 Give me strength!!!! Does anyone know the true meaning of things?? Anyone...???
Elderly man finds that he has a sister, Olga, and that they were adopted after his biological parents died. The kids were separated for stupid reasons and she was raised as his cousin. They were reunited. I just saved you 14:09! It takes this story FOREVER to get to the answer! 🙄
Ridiculously long and to my way of thinking a load of crap. I should've known when I saw the very first family photo.....It was of people dressed in early 1900's attire. An entire fabrication in my view. Don't waste your time.
Short version girl in picture was his sister they were seperated but knew each other as cousin instead of sister and brother. Way to long. Sorry for them they never knew til in 80's could have gone to the grave never knowing. Not going into detail. Have a great year❤ ❤❤
It was not a sad story. It was a wonderful loving story with a awesome ending. The parents seperated them giving them a great chance at life. No one knows what his parents knew about their relationship to cause them to seperate them but i have a feeling that the choice they made was the right one. Each gained a brother and one gained a sister. How much more lucky can you can get then that.
OMG. The little girl & him were Adopted into different families. The girl was given to his aunt & brought up as his “Cousin”. They both didn’t remember
2 minutes in & I'm thinking "If he was an only child, how could he have a NIECE a couple years older than him? For her to be his niece, she'd have to be the child of a much older sibling. Is he just using the term niece even though she's really a cousin? [My family has a situation where there's 2 girls that have nieces & nephews only slightly older or younger than themselves. My aunt had 3 kids, the oldest 2 girls while in her mid & late teens, & then at like 23 had a son. Got divorced some years after that. Then several years later she married again, & although eldest daughter had already started giving her grandkids, aunt & hubby #2 had 2 more kids themselves while daughters #1, #2 & then son also provided more grandkids. So in the middle of this group of kids, 2 of them are actually aunts to all the others, not cousins.]
Man to keep these kind of secrets is so mean. Should at least told them when they reached adulthood and not let them go their whole lives not knowing who they are
It was common in years past to not tell children they were adopted. It was to keep everyone from thinking the child came from a 'shameful' past (unwed mother or murderer father or such), and ostracizing the child for his parent's sins. It was also common if a child died young to never speak of her/him again, and never tell the other children. It was an attempt to not bring up heartaches that would make the mother or siblings grieve. I know my father had a brother who died in a hunting accident at about 12 yrs old. The whole large family never spoke of him (except perhaps between just one or two of them alone) and most people don't even know he existed. When counting the children my grandmother had they don't include this brother nor another little one who died within a week of his birth. I expected when I first clicked on this post that this would be the case. I was close, but still off on the wrong road!
We found a puc of my dad when he was a infant. seems harmless enough right? Wrong the puc was taken over a year before he was born. So many skeletons in that closet
My parents kept my elder sister's adoption "a secret" for nearly two decades. My mother confessed to having adopted her (during a heated argument) during our teen years. We both now know about the adoption ~ several years ago, my sis found (the) signed legal documents while rummaging through a closet.
What a dirty thing to do to a couple of children! Bad things happen to people every single day. Believing one could erase it all with secrets is wrong! I found out I had a sister late in life. It still upsets me. That wasn't the only lie. I never looked because I didn't want to know what other secrets I would find. As of my father's passing, mom passed first, I wrote off the history of my family. I've had a hard enough life without dragging up their lies. Sorry, but I lived it and it wasn't worth anything to me!
So the two children were separated because they were not good for each other due to their parents death? At an age they were to young to remember each other? This is BS.
I will leave open whether this story is true or rather romanticised or even made up but one thing is certain, it is not because things were concealed regarding your past, things you are not aware of, that your life would be a lie! A life is only a lie when you make it a lie yourself.
Personally, I loved ❤ the story and didn't think it was that long compared to other stories I have watched. I am glad there was an ending that was happy ❤
Nice story, but the relational descriptors are wrong. Claudia would be his cousin, not his niece. He can't have any, except by marriage, unless he has a sibling.
Growing up, my father's best friend was his cousin Ramon. They would stay at their Grandmother's during the Summer. Later, we lived two doors away and Ramon's wife babysat me and my twin brother and I when we were born. A few years after that, Ramon opened a newspaper distribution center on his own and made a lot of money. It was after the two had passed we learned they were cousins but from different branches of the family. My handicapped grand uncle gave up his son to a couple in the family that couldn't have kids. When I visit that far western suburb, I like to point out Ramon's building. The newspaper left the building years ago.
I guess they thought they were doing the right thing by separating them, but I think it was cruel. The children needed time to adjust to the reality of life without their parents. They would have had each other, but the adults in charge dealt them a second tragic blow by removing them from each other's lives. I can't help but wonder if the adoptive parents just decided they wanted to raise the son and gave the daughter to the other relatives. And what was the point in keeping them separated for five years? Because they didn't want them to remember each other? Heartbreaking.
I remember a old woman saying a kid showed up at her parents home when she was a kid and told it was her brother. Only time she ever met him. She was about 9 and he 14. She never knew his name.
First of all, that is a computer-generated voice. Listen to the inflections, cadences, etc. And also, “he” mispronounced a word. Don’t remember which one, but I listened to the whole download and I remember one word he stumbled over. I just LOVE people who have nothing better to do than gripe! If you don’t know who I’m talking about, then you haven’t read the comments……..
The scary thing about this kind of betrayal is that in many cases the connection is so strong that unintentional incest happens. The truth should always prevail..
Back then adoption was shunned although thankfully that's changed, I had a great-grandfather who was adopted which is why I know about how adoption used to be viewed and when I said adoption was shunned, that's a millennium level understatement because it was actually viewed as worse than if the birth parents had unalived their kid for whatever reason though again thankfully that's changed
This is so true.I’m through watching this channel. The stories go on and on and on, and go far too long. Few stories are ever worth that kind of time and effort.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
bloody boring. get to it for crying out LOUD.
that's why I speed up the video for such videos
@@GeorgeMorgan6600 Hello there Karen - still being an ass on this blessed day?
It's Chat Ai narration. Chat Ai has very little inflection of tone, and never quite pronounces contractions properly. I will usually turn a Chat Ai narrated video off after a few seconds, but I wasn't sure about this one until halfway through.
Olga was 3, and Willhelm was 1, they were brother and sister. Judy and James were his adopted parents. And his old aunt stated that Olga was his cousin now, remamed Claudia adopted by his Aunt and Uncle and therefore his cousin now.
Thank you!
@@trevorjennings721 I'm doing well, and you?
Thank you, so much time saved!!!!!
Thank you
Thank you
How sweet that they finally discovered their true identity and family story before either passed.
Gullible number 1
I fast forward.
Sorry, I gave up. The telling of the story was taking too long.
I agree every time I hear his voice I know it's going to be a long repetitive story and then the pictures throw you off because it tells you is the stories aren't true because the people keep
Same here😂
This guy is boring😂
Did you find out the end of the story? You can slide your find
Get along the red line that shows to speed Ed up the. Video.
Iv never worked out how to fast forward.
This is such a sad story! Why in the world would they seperate those precious siblings?!!!!! I'm glad that they both found the truth even if was long overdue! God bless them!❤🙏💞
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Gullible number 2
Respect your elders especially Yoda he’s a Jedi and could tear you in half in his sleep if given the chance it wouldn’t be the Jedi way of course but he still could if he wanted to
Secrets hurt! Found out at 58 we had another sister. My 5 siblings and I were shocked, mom had just died. She was 48 and been looking for mother all her life. Sad, sad, sad, why the lies?
Why the lies? Because society was cruel back then and society would condemned people, neighbours gossiped, cruel gossip and added to it to make themselves feel important. There was poverty and shame, there was unkindness and misunderstanding. There was condemnation and cruelty. If one member of a family was shamed then that shame was reflected on the whole of the family and they would often be shunned. I've done a lot of family history and when indexing one set of records, in particular, I notice how unforgiving the priest (supposedly a man of God) was, and lazy. He had recorded thirty three births on two pages. Most of the births were just the child's name, date of birth and father, the bare minimal. Three had 'bastard child,' their date of birth and both the parent's names. I imagine it was so that he could shame them. Yet nearly two hundred years later they were the only children whose mother I could record. I like to think they had the last laugh. There are secrets in my family and unfortunately for the children they will remain just that, secrets.
@@beccabbea2511 Im not convinced society has changed. People are still cruel but now they do it publically on twitter, fb, tiktok etc for selfpromotion!
It's not a lie, he just wasn't told!
@@beccabbea2511 Shame? It was rife back then. My grandma turned out to be my Great Auntie's daughter; my other Grandma had two husbands not even her kids knew about and that's just a tiny bit of it all. Doing my genealogy is a nightmare!Most families have secrets like that from back then. I wonder how many siblings have married/had children together and didn't know they were brother and sister; these daze especially! (Pun intended)
@@beccabbea2511The word "bastard" simply means illegitimate.
The older generation and their secrets!!! It caused so much torment and grief for the ones keeping the secret. How do I know this,
because I was a secret. My bio-father's family and my half brother didn't know that I existed, until I contacted them when I was 50 yrs old..
Yep....me too; my birth parents were married, just not to each other & I was definitely a surprise.😢
I found at 40 I was not my fathers child. Many years later I was given information on my bio father. I eventually contacted his children (grown adults). I did it in a very careful way however they refused to have anything to do with me. Even my siblings I grew up with largely cut me off when the secret came out. I find I can cope quite well - and am amazed at my bio fathers family and history. p.s. Yes, I did talk to him before he died but never actually met him.
@@susannahleigh26 I’m sorry for the way you were treated by your siblings. That had nothing to do with anything you did. It never crossed their mind of what it did to you or how you felt? 🙏
I'm still searching I'm almost 50
I feel ever one should have their own voice ,thank you for sharing ,I'm happy you both still have each other now know as sister N brother !!!🪶🤍💛❤🖤🪶
People's thinking was so screwed up back in the day! Why on earth would anyone think that was okay to separate and then lie to them clear into their adult lives? Thank God they found out the truth. Very sad story...
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Family should not keep secrets the truth always has a way of coming out.
The discarded. We found family members in old photos and asked about them. They got in trouble, they were slightly retarded, or had a deformation of some sort. They had a baby out of wedlock They were never seen again in family photos again. They were never mentioned again. They were "removed" from the family. I have hope for genetic testing. We don't "discard" people anymore, not beginning this generation. My father specifically mentioned....regularly....that if I displeased him, I would be discarded. When I actually saw how MANY people they did this to, my blood ran cold. "Extra" female children were also discarded; but in the time I was born, that was not as easy. Did not prevent him from telling me that. I am horrified; and even more bent on meeting those other "discards." Found an unknown half brother on my own. Yes, we grew up within 5 miles of each other. This stuff has got to stop.
I was a secret until I contacted my bio-father and his family when I was 50. We had a lovely reunion.
I completely agree! We face bad situations every day. We can't just hide them! In trying to 'protect' one person, or whatever, someone else gets hurt!
I found out I had an older sister. This was kept secret because she was born out of wedlock. Then, there's the fact that I am the only blonde in my family! It has made me feel like there were more secrets!
If my parents are so ashamed that they kept secrets, it doesn't say a lot about them. I learned enough about them seeing how they lived their lives. I couldn't deal with any more!
@@suruha2306 I have a feeling lately that there is more of this than we know. Remember, tho, that sometimes, due to the way DNA works, you may hark back to a past generation. (I looked, when young a lot like my maternal grandmother, but not unlike my parents.) It happens more amazingly in cases of mixed-race parentage in a person’s line. However, if old family photos reveal no one similar, you might begin to look into it. Caution is always wise, though, since you need to be prepared for possible difficult truths, and the reaction of both your family and another one to such a search and its discoveries. Some turn out very well, but step carefully. Wishing you well in every way.
Good luck. Now days, I would think people have to have a lot of money to "discard" family or "acquaintances". Back when, you just had to claim that the "discarded" was a burden on them. Financial, mentally. Etc.
lol
This family was heroic. ✨ God Bless them for taking care of these desperate orphans. Can't have been easy.
I understand that the adoptive parents only wanted what was best for the both of them, however, keeping the two of them in the dark about who they really are for their entire lives was WRONG and there is NO EXCUSE for this !!!! They should have been told the truth about all of this many many years ago !!!!!!
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Yes, they should have told him. I'm glad he found his sister.
More questions than answers; that's always the way it goes.
At 14 my parents told my friend that my dad wasnt my dad. I asked about this. They said some guy named Michael Chambers is. At my dad deathbed they told me he is my dad again. My mom has been useless. Ill never know the truth
@poppypottschannelno. It is the right of the child to know. They may not understand the word adoption neither did they understand the word love. But parents told their children they love them anyway. Adoption is not a crime so you don't keep it a secret. Secrets are signs of a dysfunctional family. Many adoptive parents thought the truth would hurt the child. But the truth is the lies hurt the child.
Very impressive and warming story. Congratulations to both that still life affords time to be together...
Not able to be raised with your sibling is horrible
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❤ what a remarkable story..we just seem to take things for granted.. thro the truth wasn't the bond was stronger..thank you!! ❤❤
The adults noticed something that was growing emotionally it sounds like in the kids and made their decisions out of love! Bless them.
I didn't know who my real Grandmother was until after she was long passed and I was grown. I always wondered why she treated us kids better then the woman that was suppose to be our Grandmother did that was her sister. Family secrets are really a bad idea.
People were different back then.
My father was adopted by his grandparents and was 18 going into the miltary when his
Mother passed. At the funeral his uncle told him to stop crying that she wasn't his mother and that his older sister was his birth mother. He left for the military and didn't return for along time.
I'm too old for all this hoo haw. My parents always said " the dog ran away...the cat ran away..the turtle ( honest) ran away" Nothing straightforward. The truth is best.👍🏼😁
Secret and lies ruined people's life. Glad they had a little time left to enjoy each other as bother and sister. 🙏
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Hope this is true and not just a story... beautiful ending
Oh, could you drag this out any more??? He stopped the car, he locked it with a key. He walked slowly up the path.... OMG, just get on with it!! What he saw in the old photo was his sister Olga who had been adopted along with him, but was now known as his "cousin" Claudia. There, that saved you 20 minutes you'll never get back.
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I had it on double play time so I made it is less than 7 minutes
If the old man is 83, he was born late around 1939. This photo he is looking at shows a family dressed in the clothing of pre-Great War, before 1914.
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Maybe 1920s
Yeah exactly nothing to do with story, if story us true.
My ancestry was withheld until my 92 year old great aunt told me when I was 64 years old. It is remarkable.
William and his sister were adopted. The parents seperatewd them and they were brought up as cousins. Takes ages to get to this...
Thank you. I had no patience for the on and on and on explanation and decided to read the comments to get the rest of the story.
That just makes me cry so sad why do people do that. lie and keep a lie alive like that. How sad for him but its great he find answers and being with his real sister. God bless him so much.
I agree, heartwarming but nonetheless a lifetime of living a lie. Thankfully his sister was adopted into the family as his cousin. however, it has happened, children (one or more adopted) and the other never knowing about it...they met in college and fell in love. I don't care what state or country you live in, there's always a chance they'll meet and they may feel a bond, not knowing it's because they're siblings, instead being drawn to each other in love. Cruel to then tell them oops you're siblings.
It's not a lie! They simply weren't told!
@@millie_mellville Withholding the truth is same as lying.
@@Surftouka A lie is TELLING or WRITING a mistruth. NOT telling a lie is NOT a lie. It's, maybe in certain circumstances, an omission but it is NOT a lie! That way of looking at things is very odd. (People are truly strange, these daze. Pun intended)
@@Surftouka If, for example, I have a huge scar on my leg. If I DON'T tell you how I got the scar, how is it a lie?? If I tell you I was hit by a bus, THAT would be a lie!! (Written about true circumstances) NOT telling circumstances and/or reasons, is ABSOLUTELY NOT LYING!! To think otherwise is weird and downright pessimistic ~ some would call it paranoid. Learn some grammar and how to see things without the negativity the majority of people have now. A lie is a lie not an impression! 🙄🙄🙄 Give me strength!!!! Does anyone know the true meaning of things?? Anyone...???
If he was an only child, how can she be his niece?
His wife's side of the family...
Wait, he was an only child, but visited his niece? That math doesn't add up...
How can he have a niece if he's an only child?
I had cousins from germany and it used to confuse me they would call me their niece. Its a german thing I guess.
If he is married and his wife has a niece, she would be his niece, too.
My grandmother was twenty one when her youngest sister was born. My great aunt Gwen was only two when my aunt was born.
@@rosekish7812yes but what is the likelyhood?
Not a fan of stories where stock photos are used as fillers in the story.
Elderly man finds that he has a sister, Olga, and that they were adopted after his biological parents died. The kids were separated for stupid reasons and she was raised as his cousin. They were reunited. I just saved you 14:09! It takes this story FOREVER to get to the answer! 🙄
Bless you!
Blah Blah Blah You take a 2 minute story and turn it into 14 minutes.
It’s called ‘telling a story’ so people understand the what, why and when
I'm with ya.
Yes
You need to get a life stay off these places if you can't be nice if you're bored go read a book that is if you can read
Ridiculously long and to my way of thinking a load of crap. I should've known when I saw the very first family photo.....It was of people dressed in early 1900's attire. An entire fabrication in my view. Don't waste your time.
Good heavens you took forever to tell a story .I have up
Loved this story 🤗
Short version girl in picture was his sister they were seperated but knew each other as cousin instead of sister and brother. Way to long. Sorry for them they never knew til in 80's could have gone to the grave never knowing. Not going into detail. Have a great year❤ ❤❤
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It was not a sad story. It was a wonderful loving story with a awesome ending. The parents seperated them giving them a great chance at life. No one knows what his parents knew about their relationship to cause them to seperate them but i have a feeling that the choice they made was the right one. Each gained a brother and one gained a sister. How much more lucky can you can get then that.
Need to send this guy to Literature class to learn how to properly convey a story!
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What a beautiful story….heartbreaking but beautiful
Wow this is very long!
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This is so darn aggravating why waste time find other pictures of people, why not just paste nothing?
How could he have a niece when he was an only child?
ask AI lol.
OMG. The little girl & him were Adopted into different families.
The girl was given to his aunt & brought up as his “Cousin”. They both didn’t remember
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I agree it takes way too long to get to the point. I bail out
2 minutes in & I'm thinking "If he was an only child, how could he have a NIECE a couple years older than him? For her to be his niece, she'd have to be the child of a much older sibling. Is he just using the term niece even though she's really a cousin?
[My family has a situation where there's 2 girls that have nieces & nephews only slightly older or younger than themselves. My aunt had 3 kids, the oldest 2 girls while in her mid & late teens, & then at like 23 had a son. Got divorced some years after that. Then several years later she married again, & although eldest daughter had already started giving her grandkids, aunt & hubby #2 had 2 more kids themselves while daughters #1, #2 & then son also provided more grandkids. So in the middle of this group of kids, 2 of them are actually aunts to all the others, not cousins.]
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A niece means that you have a brother or sister
A niece is the child of your brother or sister
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Fourteen minutes for a five minute story.
If he was an only child how could he have a niece?
@1:28 "He knocked first on his niece's door . . ." How does he have a niece if he's an "only child?"
It can be a cultural thing…in my family aunt and cousin is quite fluid.
Nah, it's because the story is BS.
If he was an only child, how can he have a niece?
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He was born 1939 ?
That's world war 2 era.
The pic looks
early 1900 maybe 1920.
🤺💐
Earlier than that.
All the visuals are just stock footage.
Sad story with a beautiful ending! ❤️
Man to keep these kind of secrets is so mean. Should at least told them when they reached adulthood and not let them go their whole lives not knowing who they are
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Awesome ❤
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It was common in years past to not tell children they were adopted. It was to keep everyone from thinking the child came from a 'shameful' past (unwed mother or murderer father or such), and ostracizing the child for his parent's sins. It was also common if a child died young to never speak of her/him again, and never tell the other children. It was an attempt to not bring up heartaches that would make the mother or siblings grieve. I know my father had a brother who died in a hunting accident at about 12 yrs old. The whole large family never spoke of him (except perhaps between just one or two of them alone) and most people don't even know he existed. When counting the children my grandmother had they don't include this brother nor another little one who died within a week of his birth.
I expected when I first clicked on this post that this would be the case. I was close, but still off on the wrong road!
We found a puc of my dad when he was a infant. seems harmless enough right? Wrong the puc was taken over a year before he was born. So many skeletons in that closet
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Often these stories are based on news articles. Whether the writer sticks to the facts or fills in the holes with mostly fiction is hard to know.🤔🙏💕
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OMG! Why the heck was that such a secret? I've found so many more reasons to a secret then this is. So disappointing.
How was she his niece and he was an only child he would have had to have a brother or sister have a child
How did he have a Neice if he was an only child?
If he was an only child, how could his niece be 2 years older?
Very good story.I'm sure this happens a lot.Great that they found out and were able to have an even tighter bond..
How sweet. Story. Happy they found out the truth. Family secrets. Can really disturb a family. I should know.
My parents kept my elder sister's adoption "a secret" for nearly two decades. My mother confessed to having adopted her (during a heated argument) during our teen years. We both now know about the adoption ~ several years ago, my sis found (the) signed legal documents while rummaging through a closet.
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How did he have a niece, if he was an only child?
What a dirty thing to do to a couple of children! Bad things happen to people every single day. Believing one could erase it all with secrets is wrong!
I found out I had a sister late in life. It still upsets me. That wasn't the only lie. I never looked because I didn't want to know what other secrets I would find. As of my father's passing, mom passed first, I wrote off the history of my family. I've had a hard enough life without dragging up their lies.
Sorry, but I lived it and it wasn't worth anything to me!
The parents and relatives should have never lied to the son ever because I am adopted and was always told that I was adopted
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He's 83 the photo looks Victorian did he have a time machine
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What a Fantastic Story.❤
Omg! I spent time watching and still couldn't finish,much less find out the way it ends. Frustrating!
If he was an only child how can this (old) woman be his niece?
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So the two children were separated because they were not good for each other due to their parents death? At an age they were to young to remember each other? This is BS.
I will leave open whether this story is true or rather romanticised or even made up but one thing is certain, it is not because things were concealed regarding your past, things you are not aware of, that your life would be a lie! A life is only a lie when you make it a lie yourself.
Personally, I loved ❤ the story and didn't think it was that long compared to other stories I have watched. I am glad there was an ending that was happy ❤
Why did you spin it out so long?
Thats the trouble with most stories on UA-cam, they drag the stories, it’s very upsetting!
Get on with it, I ended up reading the comments
How could an " only child" have a niece? You have to have a sibling to have a niece or nephew. Seems made up. Good story, but just a story.
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i won't watch the whole thing either. I know, though, that many families posed with dead relatives.
Told he was the only child but he had a niece a couple years different from his own age
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Nice story, but the relational descriptors are wrong. Claudia would be his cousin, not his niece. He can't have any, except by marriage, unless he has a sibling.
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I am not clear what is meant by they had a negative impact on each other when young leading to separating them. He was one. So wrong.
Growing up, my father's best friend was his cousin Ramon. They would stay at their Grandmother's during the Summer. Later, we lived two doors away and Ramon's wife babysat me and my twin brother and I when we were born. A few years after that, Ramon opened a newspaper distribution center on his own and made a lot of money. It was after the two had passed we learned they were cousins but from different branches of the family. My handicapped grand uncle gave up his son to a couple in the family that couldn't have kids. When I visit that far western suburb, I like to point out Ramon's building. The newspaper left the building years ago.
Long-winded for no reason. Just tell the story. And the visuals are ridiculous. Won't watch anything from this source again.
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So true
How did he have a niece to ask if he was an only child?
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I enjoyed this nice story 😊
I guess they thought they were doing the right thing by separating them, but I think it was cruel. The children needed time to adjust to the reality of life without their parents. They would have had each other, but the adults in charge dealt them a second tragic blow by removing them from each other's lives. I can't help but wonder if the adoptive parents just decided they wanted to raise the son and gave the daughter to the other relatives. And what was the point in keeping them separated for five years? Because they didn't want them to remember each other? Heartbreaking.
Hate listening to these stories. Always stop never finish. On on and on.
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I can’t listen anymore
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I remember a old woman saying a kid showed up at her parents home when she was a kid and told it was her brother. Only time she ever met him. She was about 9 and he 14. She never knew his name.
First of all, that is a computer-generated voice. Listen to the inflections, cadences, etc. And also, “he” mispronounced a word. Don’t remember which one, but I listened to the whole download and I remember one word he stumbled over. I just LOVE people who have nothing better to do than gripe!
If you don’t know who I’m talking about, then you haven’t read the comments……..
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He's 83. His aunt 85. And an interesting new story.
Wonderful story, RWB ❤🎉
Such a heartwarming story. I was actually expecting him to find out he was Jewish. But 😻 he found his sister..
How could he have an niece if he was an only child ?
I love the random old people in the video.
Um, he asked his NIECE? You can only have a niece if you have a sibling. This is BS.
The scary thing about this kind of betrayal is that in many cases the connection is so strong that unintentional incest happens. The truth should always prevail..
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Back then adoption was shunned although thankfully that's changed, I had a great-grandfather who was adopted which is why I know about how adoption used to be viewed and when I said adoption was shunned, that's a millennium level understatement because it was actually viewed as worse than if the birth parents had unalived their kid for whatever reason though again thankfully that's changed
Great story
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If he was 83, the aunt must be 100+?
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