The Other Man’S Child: In Search of Myself

By Cheryl E. Parfait

This book is about a young female finding out the truth about her biological father and how her life turned out to be as she grew older. The expectations she had for her life were not what she expected. Her views on life turned out to be different than she could have ever imagined.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524530785

Cheryl E. Parfait

When Cheryl was younger, she noticed that her skin and hair color were different from her brothers and sisters. Cheryl had a feeling that she was adopted and had questions that only her mother could answer. Cheryl’s mother was pressured into telling her the truth about her father.

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Rev. date: 08/03/2016

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This book is

dedicated to my mother and father. I know my mother’s decisions were not easy in life, but she made the best choices she had seen fit for me. She taught us about family and how to stick together no matter what. To my father, the man that raised me, I will forever be grateful and thankful to him because he had to make the hardest decision, but he accepted me and loved me as his own.

In loving memory of

Rita Wilson Dean and Joseph L. Dean

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This book is about the way my life turned out

After finding out

That I am another man’s child

All the questions

All the pain I felt at that time and moment

All the wonders I will endure all my life

All the dreams I had until I felt the betrayal of

My mother’s words

The man you call Daddy is not your daddy

All the tears I will cry for myself and all

The other children

That is another man’s child

The Other Man’s Child

In Search of Myself

(Who Am I?)

Today as I sit here, thinking of what my life has become,

I know it couldn’t have been any other way

I cannot remember every single part of

My childhood, but I can remember this day,

Mother’s Day 1977

Never knowing the pain I was about to endure for the rest of my life

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The year I turned fifteen, my mom just couldn’t wait to tell me that the only man I had ever known as Daddy was not my father. I could not believe that; I always felt like I did not belong to this family. At the time my mom told me that I was the other man’s child, it felt like someone had just died. I just did not know how to react to this news. I couldn’t hold back the tears. I wondered if this was a joke my mom was playing on me or if this was for real.

Man, what a mind blower, I was just fifteen and was told that I did not have a father. I had all kinds of thoughts running through my mind like who the hell am I?

I will never understand why my mom had to tell me that right at that moment. I was only fifteen years old and