My resolution for 2018 is to trace the family who don’t yet know I exist

Two years ago I discovered I was not related to my white father. Now, I intend to find out the origins of my blackness

When it comes to setting new year’s resolutions, I am not that bothered about losing weight, exercising more, or becoming more productive (although it would be good to finally get a grip on all those things). Instead, I have decided to make 2018 the year in which I make a serious, wholehearted attempt to trace a family who don’t yet know I exist, and to find out once and for all, in as much detail as I can, the origins of my blackness.

Related: ‘My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth’

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2pXNYgP