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Verda Byrd spent the past seven decades of her life as a black woman, but at age 70, she discovered a shocking family secret her parents took to their grave that she's recently made peace with -- she was born white. Byrd, now 72, was adopted as a baby in 1943 by her black parents, who never told her that her biological parents were actually white, she said, explaining that she only uncovered the truth in 2013 about her birth after she went on a search for her biological parents' history.

Verda Byrd, who was adopted by black parents as a child, finds out 70 years later that she is white.Verda Byrd recently found out after seven decades of living as a black woman that she was born to white parents. Although some may view Byrd's situation as vaguely similar to that of Rachel Dolezal's recent outing as white by her parents after several years of her passing as black, Byrd is vehement that her case is not the same and she gets in twist every time the former NAACP leader's name is mentioned, KHOU reports. "She lied about her race,"...