Should she have let her son meet his dying dad?

Yes. She did the right thing. The risk was well worth the reward in this case.

• Yes, it was a very gracious and kind thing on your part. I was 57 years old before I found out who my father was. My mother never told me.

• I grew up with my mother and stepdad, and the four children they had after they married. My mother died in Sept. 2001 from complications of Alzheimer,s. She never once mentioned my father's name to me, nor did she ever tell him he had a son. It wasn't until the last year of my mom's life that I fou …