What is the most messed-up bombshell someone has dropped into a casual conversation with you?

One year at the cottage, we met a family who was renting a cottage across the bay for the weekend,

which consisted of a mum, dad, a 25-ish-year-old sister, and a younger sister who was maybe around 7 or 8.

One afternoon, the parents decided to tell my mum that the older sister is actually the younger sister who was maybe around seven or eight. One afternoon, the parents decided to tell my

mum that the older sister is actually the younger sister's mother, but they're raising her to

believe that they are her biological parents. I can't imagine this stayed secret for much longer,

seeing as they'd told my mom after speaking to her for maybe about half an hour?

We were visiting my mother's house and sitting down for a family dinner once with my siblings

and significant others, about eight of us in total. My brother, who's significantly younger than I am,

was about 14 at the time. There was a silent moment, the kind where you can hear the sound of chewing,

and my mother

obviously wasn't comfortable with it, so she casually mentioned,

I walked in on him tickling his pickle last week. Chaos ensued. I had a female friend over,

and there were about three of us sitting around on the couch drinking some beers. Then she drops

the... So, I lost a baby on Sunday, bomb. Yeah, I didn't even know I was pregnant. Anyone

wants another beer? I have an old friend who tends to drop these kinds of bombshells. She's

had a hard life and hates to whine about it, but deep down she really needs to talk about

these things sometimes. I think it's her way of keeping

us updated about her life without feeling like she's a complainer. She's utterly not a complainer,

which we tell her as much as possible, but she went through a lot of rough treatment as a kid,

and is still dealing with a lot of it. When we were talking about one of my mum's uncles,

she casually dropped the fact that he was

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