My ‘sister’ and I only had each other when we were young, she’s older than me by quite a bit, almost 17 years.
Whenever I asked about our parents, she would always tell me that they had passed on long ago leaving the two of us behind.
I believed her even though I had never seen any photos of evidence in our house of our ‘parents’ existence.
Whenever we go out, people would also ask us how we are related as we look quite like one another but our age gap was too big.
I had never suspected anything but all these changed one day when I happened to chance upon my birth certificate which she had carelessly left it on her table and left home.
Turns out that she is my mother
It was the first time that I saw my birth certificate and while I was looking through, I noticed that the particulars of my Father was blank while what shocked me was the particulars of my Mother were those of my ‘sister’.
I called her to come back immediately to find out what had happened.
Went she came back, she cried as she hugged me and called me ‘son’.
She asked for my forgiveness for hiding this from me all these while and explained that she herself is an orphan and had no one with her growing up.
She then met my father who toyed with her and left her after making her pregnant with me.
She was at a loss at what to do but still decided to give birth to me in the end.
As she was only in her late teens when she gave birth to me, she did not want people to look at her as a young single parent and so she started to lie to everyone that I am her brother.
Should I forgive her for lying to me?
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