DEAR ABBY: I am a retired Marine who married my supervisor’s daughter. I’ll call her “Zoe.” He and I were good friends. Zoe and I divorced in 1997. During the marriage, I found out that he was not her real father. It was a family secret that accidentally got out.

Zoe and I had a daughter, “Ellie.” When I discovered when she was 13 that she wasn’t mine, I was furious. I eventually accepted Ellie as my own because I was the only father she had ever known, and it wouldn’t change anything.

Now, years later, I have remarried and raised two stepsons as my own. Ellie has three kids. Sometimes, I want to tell her the truth, and other times, I just want to leave all this alone. What should I really do? -- HISTORY REPEATS IN ALABAMA

DEAR H.R.: You are a caring, responsible man. I will assume that

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