The following teaser is from the July 12, 2018 edition of the Seattle Times. Click on the illustration or the end at the end of this blog to read the article.
When Seattle Times staff columnist, Nicole Brodeur, and her niece took an Ancestry.com test late last year, they never expected to find new members of the family.
None of us cared about the affair.
That’s not to say we didn’t wonder about it: How my grandfather first got together with one of the waitresses who worked at his Massachusetts bar back in 1942. How they made an immoral decision together, and where. Whether it lasted for weeks, months, years. Or if it was just one time, which would have been enough.
All that really mattered to my sister, niece and me is that the affair produced a son; that that son had a daughter. And that daughter, a woman named Lee Ann, was standing in my sister Suzie’s kitchen last week, tall, blue-eyed and brown-haired. Flesh and bone. Family.
