Goodreads asked Les Edgerton:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Les Edgerton Good question! One of the things in my own life that forever bothered me was that my father treated me very differently than my brother and three sisters. Finally, when I was 68 one of my sisters told me she and the other siblings had often talked about that, which I didn't know. She also said one of our aunts on my father's side had said to her that I wasn't my father's real son and suggested we get a DNA test. We did and through that I discovered he wasn't my birth father. My mother was still promoting that lie. And, I've used that not as a plot for a story, but as the thrust for the memoir I was writing. I can see it was a very viable plot for a novel.

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