The Result She Almost Didn’t Click
The email arrived on a Tuesday afternoon while Lauren was grading essays.
Your DNA Results Are In.
She almost ignored it.
The ethnicity breakdown held no surprises — mostly American, some German, a hint of Scandinavian.
She was about to close the app when one notification stopped her cold.
Close Family Match: 25% shared DNA
Relationship Prediction: Half-sibling
Lauren stared at the screen.
Read it again.
Then again.
“That can’t be right,” she whispered.
Her father had died when she was five. Her mother had always been clear: no other children. Ever.
But the app didn’t waver.
Name: Emily.
Age: 32.
Location: Charlottesville.
Two hours away.
And the photo — the eyes, the jawline, the faint cleft in the chin — felt unsettlingly familiar.
Lauren typed a message she never imagined sending.
“Hi. I just got my results. This is unexpected, but it looks like we might be related.”
The reply came six minutes later.
“I’ve been waiting for this message.”
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