All it took was a click\u2014one casual, curious click\u2014and my whole world cracked open.I remember staring at the DNA test results on my computer, willing them to be wrong. My brain scrambled for logic, for error. But my heart\u2026 my heart already knew the truth. Life was about to change, and not in a way I could prepare for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m Billy. I was the kid with the dream life\u2014an only child, doted on by two loving parents who never said no to anything. My mom made the best pancakes on Sunday mornings, and my dad surprised me with the latest game console just last week.\u201cFor what purpose is this?\u201d I asked, half-laughing, my eyes wide with excitement.He ruffled my hair and grinned. \u201cDoes my favorite son need a reason to be spoiled?\u201dMom chimed in from across the room. \u201cYou mean your only<\/em> son.\u201dDad winked. \u201cAll the more reason.\u201dIt was always like that\u2014the three of us, a perfect little triangle. Unshakable. Until that DNA test came back.It had started as a birthday gift to myself. I\u2019d turned eighteen and thought it\u2019d be fun to learn if I had Viking blood or something. Nothing serious. Just a novelty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All it took was a click\u2014one casual, curious click\u2014and my whole world cracked open.I remember staring at the DNA test results on my computer, willing them to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":835,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26102,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26100\/revisions\/26102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}