Welcome back to the peripheral. On today's episode, I decided to do something a little bit more

lighthearted. I do have some pretty heavy topics coming up, so I wanted to do something a little

different today. Well, today's episode, I want you to ask yourself a question. Have you ever felt

a little out of place? Dec decided to take a DNA test,

just to see your roots? And while doing so, uncover a family secret that will turn your world

on its head. Well, today's guest, Erica, does exactly that.

Hey, Erica, does exactly that. Hey, I'm Erica, and I am here in Oregon, and I'm sharing the story about my biological father that I found three years ago.

Oh.

Through ancestry DNA, it's a pretty wild story. You say biological father

three years ago. So obviously somebody else was raising you, right? Yeah. So I am, I'll be 35 in

December. I was raised by my mom, my, and the man she married when she was 18 and pregnant,

who I knew is my father. And that was my life. I grew up with these really nice young Christian

parents who had me as a teenager, but then they, you know, got married. They did exactly

what good Christian teenagers do when they knock each other up. Right. And when I was born, my family

lived in our hometown in California still. Then when my dad graduated high school and I was born, they decided to move to Oregon and start

their lives in Oregon. And so my dad could go to college. And he went to a Christian college in

Portland, Oregon, which is really funny because if you knew my parents today, like, they're not

religious. But my parents

moved Oregon. I was like, I think one and a half or two. And my dad started school at his

Christian Bible college. And my mom was pregnant with my little brother. He and I are only 18 months apart. So my mom had my brother. And a couple

years later, she had my sister and my sister and I are four years apart. And that's when my mom

told my dad that she didn't know if I was his or not because I looked so much different than

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