re: One of the saddest stories of infidelity I've read

These stories are a lot more common than you think. My families personal one involved my mom's father's sister. She was 16 in rural 1950's Louisiana and her family got worried she was spending too much time with her married boss at the drug store. She then "went away to boarding school" and "while there saw an orphan baby she wanted to raise on her own". She comes back to town and the drug store owner and his family suddenly close shop and move to Missouri. The whole family really knows what the score is but my Great Aunt sticks to the story. On her death bed her Grandkids tell her "we know what happened and we love you, etc." but she continues to deny that they are biologically hers until she dies. Years later, the grand kids do the 23 and me and since they are full cousins with my mom, they know the truth. They kind of understand but are still pissed that she continued to deny them when there was no reason to except her pride.