My family has always been embroiled with secrets. That was the only reason why I would get into trouble - for telling the truth.
I remember being at my fathers as I was getting older and I started to challenge his reasoning. He was extremely passive aggressive, I figured out. And he had a weird habit of telling me lies thinking it was amusing because his life was so fickle and small. He said when I was really young and we would make jigsaws together that he had skeletons in the closet.
I am not sure how we got to it one day but he told me that he had children before my Mum and he said it solemnly and I thought that there may be a shred of truth in it. he did write to someone in Norway, I found the letters but I did not read them. At this very moment I think he just made it up.