She Thought Her Father Was Dead—Until a Shocking Discovery Just Blocks Away from Home
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, it wasn't until Karen Olson's school held a father-daughter dance that the question entered her mind: "Wait, who is my dad?" After asking her mother, she told her he had died before she could meet him. But years later, after a chance encounter, she found that wasn't true.
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