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Things just swirling around my head.

Am I really the product of this?

Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.

Little did I know what more was to come.

I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging

out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.

They did know that I was different.

You had kids together.

Yeah.

Then you met.

Then we met.

The Gift.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience.

This is the ideal life, wrote Mark Twain.

And though we can't do much about your friends or indeed your conscience, we can recommend some good books.

With me today to do just that are the poet Gwyneth Lewis, first national

poet of Wales, whose collections include most recently First Rain in Paradise, and whose memoir

Nightshade Mother about her mother's emotional abuse came out last year. And with Gwyneth,

the author and journalist Annabel Abbs, whose books of memoir, fiction and

non-fiction include the language of food and, under her other name of Annabel Streets, 52

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