"My aunt mysteriously disappeared before I was born. Her car was found, still running, parked off the side of the road. Her purse was still inside. No one knows what happened to her. They didn’t even fill out a missing person report..."
"It looked as if she ran away, but we haven't seen or heard from her since. There’s a possibility it was murder, but my family is still very hush-hush about the whole situation."
No, DNA isn't identical, similar yeah..
what Sinah said..
biologically, the same, emotionally, not so much
The houses were close together, and she tossed a burning dishrag from her kitchen window onto the neighbor's roof. It smouldered, sparked a flame, and that was that.
She never told them what happened. Continued to live next to them for decades. Even saw them in church.
Dirty family secret. I didn't learn about it until 20 years after the fact.
Lake Gage in northeast Indiana.