Monday 24 September 2012

Woman Marries Her Father... Unknowingly!!!!

Valerie Spruill     An Ohio woman who unknowingly married her father says she is unsure whether he knew he was wed to his biological daughter before his death in 1998. “It is devastating. It can destroy you,” Valerie Spruill, 60, told CNN of learning eight years ago that she had been married to her father.

 A DNA test using hair from the late Percy Spruill’s brush confirmed the shocking news.
Valerie Spruill lived silently with the secret until this month, when she gave an interview to the Akron Beacon Journal to try and help others dealing with similar circumstances.
“I want this to be more of an inspirational story,” the 60-year-old told the newspaper. “If I’ve come through this, anyone can come through anything through the help of the Lord.”
Spruill, who lives in Doylestown, Ohio, says other members of her family knew the dark secret long before the news was revealed to her.
Whether her husband ever knew “I don’t know,” she told CNN. “That conversation didn’t come up … I think if he did know, there is no way he could have told me.”
Percy Spruill died in 1998 at the age of 60. The pair had been married for several years
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If this happened to you, what would you do???

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