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When discovering a parent's secrets after they die

I found love letters in my late father's things from someone who isn't my mother and now I don't know if I should tell her or protect her from the truth.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Posthumous discoveries of infidelity create impossible choices between truth-telling and protecting survivors.

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