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A DNA test has just confirmed that I, a 39 year old guy, has a daughter who's 18.

What now?

And yeah, I feel just as you'd imagine, but it gets worse.

She lives in the US and I'm in Europe. I don't know how to do this and I really need advice.

So what happened is that months ago I got a call from a US number. I didn't answer since I don't know anyone there. Then again the same day. So I answered ready to yell at some scammer. A girl on the other side introduced herself and just said that she thinks that I might be her father.

That was the first thing that she said.

Hi, my name is Jane and I think you might be my father.

Obviously I told her that I don't have any kids and that she has the wrong number.

But then she drops a name that I haven't heard in, you guessed it, 18 years.

Back around that time, I was in the U.S. for a year on a job exchange with our sister company.

I met a woman there and we hooked up over maybe a couple of months.

I remember buying condoms after meeting her, but I can't remember if we use them every time.

Anyways, I gave that woman my number, but I never heard from her again.

The girl on the phone asked me if my name is my name, and I freak out and almost hang up on her.

She tells me more about her mother and I just sit there like an idiot.

She'd found my name and number in her mother's diary

and now that she turned 18 she wanted to contact me.

She lives with her relative now since her mother is unable to take care of herself for some reason.

I still don't know the details there. She asked me if I'd be willing to do an ancestry DNA test and even offered to pay for it. She ends by saying that I should think about it and she asked if she can call me again. I just say sure and we hang up.

I swear I was about to faint right there and then. The whole conversation lasted only like five minutes.

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