Originally Published: Washington Post • July 27, 2017 • Longreads Best of 2017 pick; viral response with over 94,000 shares on Facebook alone; ranked among “The 100 Most Engaging Stories of the Year” for 2017 by Chartbeat, which measures how much time people spend reading stories
Five years ago, Alice Collins Plebuch made a decision that would alter her future — or really, her past.
She sent away for a “just-for-fun DNA test.” When the tube arrived, she spit and spit until she filled it up to the line, and then sent it off in the mail. She wanted to know what she was made of…
