Shirley Munoz Newson always felt like she didn’t belong while growing up.

One day before her 43rd birthday April 7, 2001, the Gillette, Wyoming, resident received the shocking and life-changing news that finally told her why.

Her father Jim Morgan, who at the time was ill in the hospital, had asked her to take a DNA test. She readily agreed, hoping it would provide much-needed answers as to why she was so different than the rest of her family.

When the results came back, Newson said she was too nervous to open the letter herself and asked her then-boyfriend, Scott Newson, to do it. The result? Morgan had 0.00% chance of being Shirley’s father.

A short time later her mother, Jean Morgan, also took a DNA, which confirmed that she and Newson were not biologically related.

She had been sw

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