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Image Source: M-Productions on iStock.com Over the past several months, I’ve received a few emails from Ancestry, urging me to renew my membership or promoting deals on their website. When my brother and I first did the Ancestry kits, our main goal was to see if we could connect with any biological relatives, especially our biological parents. As Ancestry grew and added more features, we learned more about our ethnic background. However, we still weren’t able to connect with

Image Source: Mabel Amber on Pixabay The phrase: "I'm officially an orphan now!" — I’ll be honest: when I first came across posts or comments like this on social media, I didn’t feel immediate compassion or understanding. In fact, I felt a flicker of anger toward these individuals for casually saying they felt like, or were now, orphans after losing their last or only parent. Especially when it seemed, based on how they wrote, that they had never experienced the true hardshi