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"After my dad's death, I confirmed via DNA tests that my mother had an affair with a black man (who I still know nothing of), and that my father and I are not related in the biological sense. The news that my whole life had been something of a lie broke me into pieces."

Wait wait wait - her entire family was white, she's black and it was only when her white stepfather died when she was a grown woman that this dawned on her "Hey, something's off here"?

Yeah, girl, Catholicism is not the problem here. "Huh I'm black and my mom is white and my white dad is not my biological father? How is that possible?"

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