Asking Eric: Feeling unmoored after learning my father wasn’t my blood relative

Dear Eric: I wanted to respond to the letter from the father who found out his children did not share his DNA (“Sad Dad”). I am a daughter who discovered after my parents were dead that my father was not my DNA donor.

The father and your answer were spot on. I went through a period of feeling unmoored after I found out. I always knew my mother was adopted — no blood relatives save her on the maternal side — now it turned out my father’s blood relatives weren’t my blood relatives.

But after a while — and granted, I am an old woman, been through a lot anyway — my feelings calmed down. I was blessed to have the most wonderful father — no DNA donor could have been better. (I was a little upset at my mom, but she and I will take that up in Heaven). So, please tell the writer from me to take d