"That's a joke, right?" Ram asked as he looked at Raphael Chan and his father.
Both men shook their heads and frowned.
"This is crazy! I look nothing like Eric or Miguel!" Ram said in a tone a little bit louder than he wanted. "I'm Ramon Abad, not Andrew Chan."
"Ram. . .you know we never wanted to lie to you." His adoptive mother, Victoria, said as she looked at him with pleading eyes.
"Why? How?" Ram began to ask as he was at a loss for words. He had a thousand questions running in his head as he tried to process the fact that his family, his biological family, had been right next to him as he was growing up.
"Maybe it's best if we explained from the beginning." James Abad said as he looked at his son. "This way you can just ask in between."
"No more lies?" Ram asked.
"No more." His father responded with a nod.
"No more secrets?" Ram asked.
"No more." His father promised again.