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Hi guys, I'm Emily and I'm going to tell you about the shocking secret that my family hid from me for years.
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You won't ever guess what it was.
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Let me take you back to five years ago.
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I'm an only child and I live with my mom and dad.
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Dad is a manager for a chain of home improvement stores and he is always changing what store he manages, so we move around the country a lot.
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It's kind of difficult to make and keep friends when you are only in one town for a year or sometimes less.
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It's getting even more difficult now that I'm 15.
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I never complained when we moved when I was younger.
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It always seemed like a big adventure.
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That was until I met Brad.
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I met him on my first day at the school I'm in at the moment, and I was obsessed with him straight away.
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He is so gorgeous and popular.
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I never thought that he would be interested in me, but he was.
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We started going out and he even bought me a ring as a present.
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He is so romantic.
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But then it all went wrong.
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That night over dinner was when dad told me that we were going to be moving again.
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We would only be in this town for one more week before we would have to move over a hundred miles away.
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It was so far away I wouldn't be able to see Brad anymore.
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I couldn't take it.
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It was heartbreaking.
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I had finally found somewhere where I really liked to live.
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And I was going to have to move?
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Nope.
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I was dead set against it.
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I told dad and mom that I was staying and that they were going to have to move without me.
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I wasn't expecting dad to react the way he did.
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He didn't get angry.
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He just told me that I had no choice and I had to do what he said.
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It was so mean, but I had had enough.
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I picked up my plate and threw it at him.
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I'm usually calm, but I was just so angry I couldn't help it.
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I had been holding on to my anger for so long, not just because of the constant moving, but because of a lot of things.
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My family just never make an effort to understand and listen to me.
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Dad ducked and it missed him, but it hit the wall of our apartment with such force that it smashed.
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Then I picked up other plates and threw them too.
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I just couldn't stop.
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I was screaming at him too.
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Mom started crying and told me that I had to calm down as I would scare the neighbors.
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Well, I was too angry to listen.
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She got a brush and dustpan and started to clear up the glass, but she was in such a state that she cut her hand on a piece of broken glass.
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There was blood everywhere.
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I was so upset.
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I never meant for my mom to hurt herself.
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Then I saw something outside.
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Flashing blue lights.
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It was the police.
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I couldn't believe that someone had called them.
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I was so scared.
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Dad answered the door to them and let two policemen in.
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Then I got really upset.
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Even though my parents feel like strangers to me, I would never want to hurt them.
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I talked to the police and apologized and told them that it was all my fault and I was so sorry, and I would never act like that again.
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The police accepted my reasoning and decided to leave us.
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But on the way out, he paused and said he just needed to fill in some paperwork before he went.
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My dad said it was completely understandable.
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All he wanted to know was our names.
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Then what happened next really shocked me.
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My dad told the police some fake names and not just for him, but for my mom and me too.
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I was so shocked I didn't say anything back.
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When the police were gone, I stood there in a shocked silence.
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There was food all over the walls from where I had thrown things around, and mom was quietly crying.
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I expected my dad to turn around and shout at me, and to tell me why he had lied to the police, but he didn't.
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He just turned around calmly and told me to go and pack my bags.
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We were moving that night.
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I opened my mouth to ask him what was happening, but he raised his hand up to his mouth and shushed me.
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I had no choice.
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I ran up to my room in tears.
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What was going on?
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I Skyped Brad and was crying so much that I don't think he really understood what was happening, even when I tried to explain it to him.
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Then dad came in and took my phone off of me and told me to hurry up.
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I couldn't believe how unreasonable he was being.
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Two hours later, we were driving in the dark to the new town where dad was going to be working.
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We sat in silence for the journey.
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I couldn't believe what was happening.
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Why had dad given fake names to the police?
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And why were we having to move in such a rush?
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When we got to the town, I found out we were staying in a really run-down motel, as our new apartment wasn't ready yet.
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When we got there, I stormed off and told my parents I was going for a walk.
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I didn't want to talk to them.
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I wandered aimlessly around the streets.
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I called Brad up and calmly told him what had happened.
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He listened and believed my crazy story.
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He kept trying to guess why my parents had lied about who they were.
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He thought that they were criminals and that is why they lied.
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It did seem likely.
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All of this moving around the country and lying to the police?
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I wanted to run away and go and be with Brad, but I had no money.
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Then he had an idea.
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He suggested I speak to the police myself.
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I didn't want to do it over the phone, so I went to a police station.
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I was really nervous.
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The man at the desk thought I was lying at first.
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I could tell he didn't believe what I was saying.
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He still wrote it all down but was reluctant to do so.
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I just begged him to believe me
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and to pass it on to the police officers who had been to my old apartment earlier that night.
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When I left, I still wasn't sure if he believed me or not.
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When I got back to the motel, dad was sitting outside and he was livid.
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He was so angry that I was out by myself at night.
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He sent me to my room and I didn't even argue.
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Then I realized I had a text from Brad.
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I opened it.
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It was a photo from a news article from five years ago.
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It showed a grainy CCTV photo of a man robbing a grocery store.
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He looked kind of like my dad.
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Maybe my dad was a thief on the run.
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That would explain so much.
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The next week was really weird.
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We moved into our new apartment and mom and dad made a massive effort to get me to like it.
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They let me paint my room and buy new furniture.
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Mom even gave me money to go clothes shopping.
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I really missed Brad though and had decided that as soon as I was 18, I was going to move and be with him.
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My new school was okay.
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I was so used to starting at a new school that it didn't really matter to me anymore.
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Then a couple of weeks later, something really strange happened.
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I was called into the principal's office.
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Now I keep my head down at school.
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I have enough going on in my life.
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Getting into trouble at school is the last thing I need.
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So I was worried.
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Was there something wrong with mom or dad?
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But when I got there, it was not what I was expecting.
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Inside were the two police officers who had been to our old apartment the previous week.
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It must be something pretty serious for them to have traveled this far.
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They sat me down and told me
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that they had got the message from me that my dad had given them false names.
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They had proceeded to investigate what had happened and needed to talk to me about it.
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They asked me what my parents' names were, and I told them their real ones.
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Then they showed me a black and white photograph of my parents that was years old, probably around the time I was a baby.
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He asked me if the people in the picture were my parents, and I said yes.
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Then they told me that they had some news.
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My parents had given false names, as they were wanted by the police.
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I told them that I already knew, and explained how Brad had found the picture of my dad robbing a grocery store.
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The policeman frowned.
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He said that wasn't why he was here, and that case had already been solved and that my dad was wanted for something far more serious.
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Kidnapping.
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He told me that almost 16 years ago, two girls were born at the same hospital on the same day and had the same surname.
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Somehow the hospital had managed to get the babies confused and the parents ended up taking the wrong babies home.
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Neither family knew anything was wrong until the girls were five.
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One of the girls ended up in hospital ill and had their blood taken.
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That was when it was worked out that the girl wasn't related to her parents.
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The police got involved and traced down the other family
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and told them that the girl they were raising wasn't biologically theirs
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and they needed to meet the girl's real parents and decide how to proceed.
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But those parents panicked, ran away, and had been on the run ever since.
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He said the girl with the parents who ran away was me.
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He said my parents weren't my real parents.
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I stood up.
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This was some kind of sick joke.
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He was lying.
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My mom and dad were my mom and dad.
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I shouted at the policeman and called him a liar.
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He tried to get me to sit back down, but I didn't listen.
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I ran out of school and headed back to my apartment.
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By the time I got home, I was exhausted.
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Dad was there, and he was so worried about me.
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He asked me what was wrong, and after I managed to get my breath back, I told him.
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I expected him to get angry or laugh, but he didn't say anything.
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He didn't look surprised, just sad.
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He walked off, and when he came back he had an envelope that he took a piece of paper out of.
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It was a newspaper article from 10 years ago where a couple were pleading for my parents to come forward
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so they could meet their biological daughter.
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I looked at the picture.
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The couple looked just like me, way more than my real parents.
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Then my dad said it.
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He wasn't my biological dad.
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I was in shock.
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My dad begged for forgiveness and told me that he
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and mom just loved me so much
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that they couldn't bear to let me meet my real parents in case they wanted me back
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and I never saw them again.
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But I was angry.
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How had they lied to me for all these years?
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And why had they made my childhood so miserable by moving me around all the time?
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I told the police I didn't want to be with these people anymore, so they moved me into a foster home which was nearer to where Brad lived.
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At first, I was pleased to be away from the people who claimed to be my parents.
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I didn't want to see them again, but living in a foster home was horrible.
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I only had a couple of drawers for all my belongings, and it was so loud with shouting and arguments at all hours.
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At least I could see more of Brad, and I had a social worker who looked after me.
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My social worker told me that my real parents had been contacted and would like to meet me.
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I jumped at the chance.
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The next week I caught a train to a different town and went and met my birth parents in a coffee shop.
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It was so uncomfortable at first.
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None of us knew what to say, but after a while it got easier.
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I looked so much like the dad, and I sounded so similar to the mom.
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It was so weird.
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We spoke about our lives, and they told me how they had spent years trying to find me.
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Then I got to meet Ashley, the baby who I was accidentally swapped with, who was almost 16, like me.
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It was so weird.
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She looked a lot like my parents.
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I suppose she is biologically theirs.
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Going back to my foster home, I had so much to think about.
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I couldn't get my head around it all.
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Me and Ashley messaged each other a lot.
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She was the only person who really understood how I felt.
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That was five years ago, and now I live with Brad in our own apartment.
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I'm in touch with my birth parents and the parents who raised me, who I still call mom and dad.
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I have finally forgiven them for lying to me for all of these years.
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I understand that they were just frightened of losing me.
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I bet you didn't guess that was going to be my family's secret, did you?
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Does your family have any big secrets?
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Let me know in the comments and don't forget to click subscribe and share.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Le parole che ritornano più spesso: dad, parents, mom, Brad. Questo video contiene 203 frasi e 2376 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 11:14. Chi parla va veloce, circa 211 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| shout verbo | /ʃaʊt/ | gridare |
| biologically avverbio | biologicamente | |
| motel sostantivo | /moʊˈtɛl/ | motel, autostello |
| theirs | /ðɛɚz/ | il loro, la loro |
| scare verbo | /skɛɚ/ | spaventare, impaurire |
| proceed verbo | /pɹəˈsid/ | procedere |
| aimlessly avverbio | /ˈeɪmləsli/ | senza meta |
| dustpan sostantivo | /ˈdʌstpæn/ | paletta, paletta della spazzatura |
| frighten verbo | /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/ | spaurire, spaventare |
| kidnap verbo | /ˈkɪdnæp/ | rapire, sequestrare |
| obsess verbo | /əbˈsɛs/ | ossessionarsi |
| surname sostantivo | /ˈsɝˌneɪm/ | cognome |
| wander verbo | /ˈwɑndɚ/ | errare, vagare |
| understandable aggettivo | comprensibile | |
| unreasonable aggettivo | /ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩/ | irragionevole |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| run away verbo | scappare, fuggire |
| pick up verbo | tirare su, sollevare |
| turn around verbo | girare, girarsi |
| calm down verbo | calmarsi, tranquillizzarsi |
| come back verbo | tornare |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| find out verbo | scoprire |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- You won't ever guess what it was.
- I couldn't believe that someone had called them.
- I was so shocked I didn't say anything back.
- I couldn't believe how unreasonable he was being.
- Does your family have any big secrets?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was obsessed · was called · were wanted |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | home which was · people who claimed · person who really |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 41 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come didn't, couldn't, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: theirs /ðɛɚz/, thief /ˈθiːf/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shout /ʃaʊt/, smash /smæʃ/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: unreasonable /ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: shout /ʃaʊt/, theirs /ðɛɚz/, proceed /pɹəˈsid/, kidnap /ˈkɪdnæp/, obsess /əbˈsɛs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: dustpan /ˈdʌstpæn/, kidnap /ˈkɪdnæp/, smash /smæʃ/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come shout, biologically, motel.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.