A New York woman gave her daughter a DNA test she'd been gifted and hadn't used for years. The results of the test led the woman to find her biological father.
New York resident Susan Filosa gave her daughter the test as she was visiting her while on break from school.
"I tossed the DNA invitation into her suitcase as she was heading back to school," Filosa explained.
Her daughter, Isabella, ended up taking the test out of curiosity. Upon receiving her results, Isabella began asking Susan a plethora of questions she was left bewildered by, reported ksn.com.
"I was expecting to see where in Spain I was from but I didn't anticipate all these questions. I immediately saw all this Italian and I said I didn't know we were Italian. I had no idea what she was talking about since both sides of our family I knew were Spanish," Susan recalled.
The man who Susan had believed to be her father, her mother's second husband, was of Cuban heritage. The results of the DNA test prompted Susan and Isabella to look into their family photos in search of answers.
After searching, they came across a wedding photo in which a man resembled Susan's son, Brandon.
"My mom brings up the name Bob Filosa. He was my grandmother's first husband. So I asked who is Bob Filosa, let's find out. I was on Instagram, on Facebook, on Ancestry.com," Isabella said.
"I found him. This guy who looks like my brother ended up being Grandpa Bob. It was amazing," continued Isabella, who found Bob Filosa living with his family in Pearl River.
Another DNA test confirmed that Bob was, in fact, Susan's biological father. Susan, who was overwhelmed by the discovery, decided to adopt her biological father's family name.
"I made him a photo album starting with the day I was born. It was a book that told the story of my life," she said.
Susan and Bob first met in March of 2023, after discovering their relation to one another.
"Oh my God, it's a moment I will never forget," Bob remembers. "It means a lot to me."
"It will always stick in my mind. It was a big day. What bothers me more than anything else is that I lost almost 50 years of not knowing my daughter."
"There was a part of me that I felt I already knew him," Susan added.
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