Message: Mac.Lowery
hello. My name is Claire.
I'm a 22 year old student in Burlingtown, Vermont and I just received a message that we share DNA. 😬
Well, hello, Claire! I've been having some health problems and joined mainly for the genetic markers. I didn't expect to find a long-lost family! Does it say how we are related?
It says we share 50% of our DNA and 23 segments.
Yes...I see that now. I just got notification as well. That's wild!
I know I was adopted. Well...I don't know how else to say this...but I think this means you're my father.
How old did you say you were?
22
So...1995?
09/12/1994
Oh...
I'm sorry. I guess I shouldn't have contacted you like this.
Oh, no...not at all. It's just that the last time I spoke with Natalie, she told me that her parents had sent her away to a clinic.
Natalie?
Natalie Picard Tessier. We were eighteen and in love.
Oh my gosh
My family made money in telecommunications. Early internet technology. Her family was old New York money. The two worlds did not blend. She was accepted into the law program at Harvard, where her father had attended and his father before him. They had plans for her life and I didn't fit.
I'm so sorry.
Oh...no. Heck. Life has a way of correcting itself. We both moved on, got married, and had families of our own. It was for the best...but how about you? I'm about an hour outside of Burlingtown. Perhaps we could have dinner or something...get to know each other a little.
I'd like that!
Are you busy Monday? I have a doctor's appointment at 2. How about dinner at Blake's on the Lake at say 5:30?
Sounds great!
Okay...see you there :)