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* ''[[Discworld]]'':

** [[Terry Pratchett]] does a great job of [[Lampshade Hanging]] on this one in the novel ''[[Maskerade]]''. In an early scene, Nanny Ogg explains the plot of the opera ''La Triviata'' to Granny Weatherwax thusly: "Well, there's a lot of humorous dressin' up, etcetera, someone will probably turn out to be someone's long-lost father or somethin'..." Near the end of the book, it is revealed that the star singer in the production of ''Il Trucadore'' really ''is'' the long-lost father of a young man in the audience. When Agnes (the junior witch) complains "This sort of thing ''does not happen''!" the more [[Genre Savvy]] Nanny replies, "Happens all the time in opera."

** Subverted in ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', where {{spoiler|Mrs. Gogol never does more than hint to Ella that she's her mother}}.

* This happens not once, but ''twice'', and to the ''same character'', in Ann Radcliffe's 1796 Gothic novel, ''[[The Italian]]''. In the first instance, the evil monk Schedoni is about to murder the virginal heroine in her sleep when he happens to glimpse her locket—her ownership of which reveals that she is (gasp!) ''his long-lost daughter!''... Only, turns out she isn't. Still, it was a pretty good reveal, wasn't it? She actually turns out to be the long-lost child of a nun who was nice to her earlier in the book, and to whom she'd previously felt a "mysterious connection."

 

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