When I was seven, a mysterious Gameboy appeared on our doorstep one Christmas morning. Mom cried when she saw it, and Dad assumed it was a gift from a kind family friend. Decades later, after Dad passed away, Mom revealed the truth: the Gameboy came from Gavin, the man she had loved before meeting Dad\u2014and the father of my half-brother, Jonah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jonah was only a few years older than me, but I had grown up believing I was an only child. Mom admitted Gavin had vanished when Jonah was a baby, though he had tried to reach out with that Christmas gift and a faded photo of two boys\u2014me and Jonah. Dad eventually learned the truth, but all he said was, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter. I love both boys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shaken, I began searching for Jonah. I dug through old boxes, pressed Mom for details, and scoured the internet for any lead. Finally, I found a clue: a torn envelope with the name \u201cLansky\u201d on it. That name became the key to my search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After weeks of posting on forums and scrolling through countless profiles, I finally got a message. The words on my screen made my heart stop: \u201cI think we\u2019re related.\u201d<\/em> It was Jonah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was seven, a mysterious Gameboy appeared on our doorstep one Christmas morning. Mom cried when she saw it, and Dad assumed it was a gift… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":419,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}