Who am I to know? I’m not the one who found out I was not related to my father. Who is she now that she no longer is her father’s daughter? Who is she when she learns that when she’s fifty-four? I sometimes felt as if Shapiro was making too much of a fuss, and was acting too traumatized. But, rabbis, mentors, friends listen patiently as she struggles with the loss of her identity and her family history. What I hadn’t known: the secret was me.”ĭani Shapiro struggles with the truth, the ethics, and has a difficult time accepting the actions of her parents. Shapiro says, “All my life I had known there was a secret. Although, her ninety-three-year old aunt, when told of the discovery, was a strong woman who grabbed Dani and said, “I’m not giving you up.” But, her aunt Shirley never knew the family secret. She was proud of all his family and his heritage. She had never been close to her mother, and identified with her father. What I can mention is Dani Shapiro’s feelings of loss of identity. The research and search are worth reading for yourself. From one sentence her mother once said, and a “first cousin” who showed up on Ancestry, Michael figured out the story, connecting Dani’s story with her biological father. Dani Shapiro felt as if she had lost her identity.ĭani Shapiro is a writer, and her husband is a journalist. All the Orthodox Jewish relatives she could name for five generations back were not her relatives. Her half-sister wasn’t related to her at all. Then, she forgot about it until the results came back. She agreed, and months later, they finally got around to spitting in the tube. Dani’s husband, Michael, said he was going to take one of those DNA analysis tests. I’ve seen Shapiro on television talking about her book and the results of her DNA analysis. I’m not spoiling the story by writing about it. She writes of it in Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. Dani Shapiro took it all lightly, but she was traumatized by the results. Think carefully before you spit into that test tube for or any of the other genealogy sites.
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