My crying alerted the family, and Regina Reyes' good-for-nothing brother, Jordan Snyder, came out and met my eyes.

He calmed my mom down and led me inside. My mom, wiping her tears, took me to see the man lying on the sickbed.

This was my dad.

My dad had an accident while biking when he found out that Regina Reyes wasn't his biological daughter. In his haste, he fell into a roadside ditch and broke his leg. It's still not healed.

Jordan Snyder, still in his senior year of high school, couldn't stop talking: "Regina Reyes is so heartless! Our family never wronged her, but as soon as she found...