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The ultimate way to introduce [[Parental Issues]] short of a murder plot. Your dad is revealed to have a
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* Takeshi Kitano's ''Kikujiro no Natsu'' has this as a [[MacGuffin]].
* One of the characters of ''The Vertical Ray of the Sun'' by Tran Anh Hung has a
* ''The Captain's Paradise'' had Alec Guinness as a naval captain trying to keep his wife in Algiers unknown to his wife in Gibraltar and vice versa.
* [[Eulogy]]: {{spoiler|This is part of the [[Video Will]] [[The Reveal|Reveal]]}}.
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* In the [[Montague Egg]] short story ''False Weight'', the late Mr. Wagstaffe had, under various aliases, wooed and married a woman in his every port of call.
* In the [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]] story ''The Luck Of The Bodkins'', about a transatlantic steamer, the author writes that on landing in New York, those of the crew "who are bigamists have long since got over the pang of parting from their wives and children in Southampton and are looking forward with bright affection to meeting their wives and children in New York."
* The financial difficulties arising from supporting a
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== [[Theater]] ==
* In the play ''Fool for Love'' by [[Sam Shepard]], the main couple are half-siblings who committed [[Brother-Sister Incest]] before either of them knew their father had a
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Real Life]] example: Vito Fossella, a Congressman from New York City, was arrested for drunk driving this year in Alexandria, Virginia. When a member of his Virginian
* Chris McCandless, who's had the book ''Into the Wild'' based on him (and a movie based on that book), found out his dad had another family. At least, it was secret to him and his sister. His mother knew, and in fact it was why they moved at one point.
* The late French president Francois Mitterrand revealed to the public shortly before leaving office that he had a
** Knowing that he had taken good care of his illegitimate daughter actually made him more popular and sympathetic.
* Eva Peron was one of the daughters in a wealthy rancher's
* A variant sometimes happens with free-range pets, especially cats, who simply go from one "owner" to another to get extra food.
* Josef Fritzl started a [[Squick|Squick-y]] one of these with his daughter Elisabeth. He imprisoned her in the cellar when she was eighteen years old and she was successfully kept there for twenty-four years. Meanwhile, [[Parental Incest|Josef raped her]] [[Squick|enough times that she gave birth to]] [[Massive-Numbered Siblings|seven children]] [[Squick|all fathered by him]]. And the way Elisabeth and the three children who he kept down there with her lived, they were certainly one of these for Josef Fritzl, with himself as the loving and benevolent patriarch who would come down to give his other wife (Elisabeth) flowers and have consensual (as he described it) sex with her and spend time with their children.
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