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When you discover hidden ancestral trauma

I found old letters in my grandmother's attic that reveal she had another child who died as a baby and no one in my family knows about this lost sister and I don't know if I should tell them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Uncovering family secrets creates responsibility for information that might disrupt others' understanding of their history.

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