I NEVER knew my father… but I FOUND him with a DNA test! -r/BestofRedditorUpdates | Reddit Stories
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
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00:00 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - I found my dad after taking a DNA test
15:20 r/weddingshaming - Well... In this case, it was my Parents who were the Monsters..…
28:31 r/relationship_advice - Advice on reconnecting (24F) with absent father (60+M) without malice after just coming to term with it.
39:24 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - My boyfriend (28M) has been collecting my (24F) rent for a free house
49:49 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - My [23F] boyfriend [26M] thinks I'm embarrassed of him, and he's kind of right
59:47 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - My (18f) boyfriend and his friends (18/19m) played a viciously cruel prank on an older couple who has lost their cat. Obviously I’m breaking up with him but what else can I do to make this right?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John. |
| 0:00.9 | This is Sam. |
| 0:01.5 | Your OG OK Storytime podcast hosts. |
| 0:03.6 | We have some great stories coming up. |
| 0:05.5 | But before that, we have a quick two-minute break from the sponsors that keep the show alive. |
| 0:08.9 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:13.2 | I never knew my father, but I found him with a DNA test. |
| 0:17.6 | Luke, I am your father. |
| 0:20.2 | I, 23 female, had grown up without a father. |
| 0:23.9 | A little bit of background. |
| 0:25.0 | My mom had a substance use problem, so home wasn't an option for her to stay at anymore. |
| 0:31.3 | She would hop from place to place, living where she could, whether it be with friends, |
| 0:34.8 | boyfriends, bad guys, etc. |
| 0:37.4 | She later found out she was pregnant after getting into a car accident. Ooh. That is a crazy chain of events. Yeah. Also a terrifying way to find out that you're pregnant when you just got into, presumably they just did a bunch of tests. Yeah. That was enough to scare her into the reality that she needed to grow up. She got her act together, |
| 0:55.0 | went to college, and is now almost 10 years sober, living her best life. By the way, this comes |
| 1:00.4 | from user McKay Lexo. And if you want to submit your own stories, you go to the R slash |
| 1:08.2 | okay storytime. I'm Dakota. I'm Sophia. I'm Keon. And we're here to give you good advice, goofily, but we don't have all the answers. |
| 1:14.0 | We only know what we would do. So if you would do something different, let us know in the comments. An O.P says, with that past in mind, though, you can kind of understand why it wasn't anyone's fault not knowing. She had a lot of so-called friends who were men, |
| 1:29.9 | no shade. Mom gotta do what you gotta do. My mother was young dumb and made decisions. She regrets, |
| 1:37.0 | but I never held that against her. Growing up, I didn't have any trust in men. I presented |
| 1:42.4 | almost all the guys she would date or have over. |
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