"Have you ever been told something that completely shocked you? Or left you feeling betrayed? That’s how I felt when I found out I had a secret half-sister.
I was 23 and although I was thriving in my job at a recruitment company, I was also making regular, heartbreaking trips to see my mum in hospital.
Her breast cancer had spread to her bones and she didn’t have long to live. She was only 50 years old. It was during one of those visits that my mum told me the secret that would turn my world upside down.
Sitting at her bedside one day, I mentioned how, on a recent trip to Kent, a woman in a shop kept calling me Daphne. “It was so bizarre,” I said.
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