This 81-Year-Old's Wife Hid A Heartbreaking Secret For 60 Years...

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2/8 The letters were postmarked as being from 1959, yet Tony had never once read them or even been made aware of them.
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3/8 Tony's wife had kept these letters hidden from him for decades because they revealed that Tony had a son. At the time the letters were sent, his son would have been five years old.
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4/8 Tony admits to being shocked, but also sad. He didn't want his son to think he was being an absent father. He was also completely confused as to why his wife would keep this secret from him. She had always wanted a family, but she was unable to have children of her own.
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5/8 Tony recently met his son for the first time. Samuel Childress is now 61 and grateful to meet his father. The two are holding no resentments or grudges towards anyone. They want to move forward.
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6/8 Samuel grew up believing that his father never wanted to meet him or have anything to do with him, which could not be further from the truth. He knew that his mother had sent Tony letters, but he just assumed Tony dismissed them.
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7/8 Samuel describes meeting his father as filling a void that's been there his whole life.
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8/8 They plan to take a paternity test to be sure, but they look forward to their years together and making new memories as father and son.
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Get your Kleenex ready.

Tony Trapani, 81, broke down in tears last week upon meeting his son for the first time… 61 years after he was born.

It wasn’t that Tony had been avoiding being a father or didn't want the burden of fatherhood — he and his wife had always wanted children — but he never knew he had a son until he discovered a series of letters from a past girlfriend that his wife had kept hidden from him in a file cabinet for over 50 years.

He was 'spring cleaning' his house when he found the letters addressed to his name. He recognised the name of the sender, but had never once been shown the secret content within.

When he opened the letters to read them, he got the surprise of his life. It's not often that a 80-something-year-old man is told he's now a father.

Source: www.littlethings.com

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