My parents divorced when I was less than a year old. I guess it was a messy split; I never saw my biological dad nor any of his relatives. My mom remarried when I was three, and I grew up happily with my stepdad, hardly even aware that I had a whole other family. The summer after my second year in college, a couple of buddies and I got a great opportunity to spend a couple of months in the Caribbean. My pal Conrad's dad w...