It's a bit complicated.
Basically I have a female character who was given up at birth by her mother. She was born very premature and the woman never showed, so the woman's husband had no idea about the baby. While he was away for a couple of weeks, she was born and when she was big and strng enough to leave the intensive care unit, she was given up to the woman's cousin, who could not have children and wanted them. The mother just went back to her husband as if nothing happened. Since then, the birth mother has had no contact with the child, who is now 18 and has no idea about the circumstances surrounding her birth. The woman's cousin, the girl's adoptive mother, has since died, so the girl was brought up by her aunt and uncle.
I'm writing it in so that the girl is now dating a guy who lives in the same small town as her biological father now does. The biological mother has since divorced him and is completely off the scene and can't be written back in.
Since the guy has no idea his wife was ever pregnant and the girl doesn't know anything about her real parents and assumes her dead adoptive mum is her real one, I need to be able to work into the plot a way for one or both of them to discover the truth. But I have no clue how to do it?
Does anybody have any ideas?
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