When Ana María Garcia was growing up in Bogotá, Colombia and people asked about her parents,

she always said that they were divorced and that she lived with her mother.

In La Escuela,

era común escuchar esa misma historia.

Era normal serija de padres divorciados.

Many of her classmates had similar stories, but Ana María was a little different.

Yo no conocía a mi padre, pero nunca me preguntaban por eso, y yo tampoco lo contaba.

But when Ana María decided to try to meet her father,

she would discover that she technically had two,

dos papás, and looking for her real father would be nothing like what she expected.

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Today's story, miso dos papás,

my two dads, as told by Ana María García and written by Sally Palomino.

Ana María was content with what her mother, Inés, had told her.

Her father's name was Luis Carlos García.

Her parents had been married for six years,

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