I'm so sorry you got treated to this information.. but take heart! Once you turn 18, for a small fee you can legally change your name to anything you want. If they don't like it, tough noogies. They should not have given you your dead sibling's name. If they still try to use it, ignore them until they use your new name.. gods.. that's an entirely new version of "dead-naming" someone!

I'm very sorry for your situation, and I'm not even able to imagine how it would be to find out and end up where you are, and I can only hope that things in some way will work out for you!

Are they big Jodi Picoult fans? Yikes.

What am I missing? How can having a child can help with getting e a bone marrow that matches? You can't tell if the kid will be born with a matching DNA, and you can't take bone marrow from newly born

Wait are you a firefighter named Buck with a best friend named Eddie? I'm pretty sure Maddie helped you work this out with your parents in season 3 of 9-1-1