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 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- An elderly Grand Rapids man has finally met his son. “But why my wife hid that letter is beyond me.” 
 
 The letter remained hidden for more than 50 years after Tony Trapani's late wife hid it in a filing cabinet. The life-changing letter was sent to him more than 50 years ago from the mother of Tony’s then-unknown son, Samuel Childress. Tony Trapani, 81, said that after his wife passed away, he was cleaning out one of her old filing cabinets when he came across the letter. "I have a little boy," it reads. You’ve had a son for 61 years. What I’m trying to say Tony is he is your son,” the long-lost lover wrote in the 1959 letter. Childress said that his mother told him that she had sent the letter, but figured his father was ignoring him. Trapani claims that his wife at the time intercepted the letter and hid it in a filing cabinet for decades while the couple couldn't conceive a child on their own. The two of them, meanwhile, were unable to have their own children. He grew up in Pennsylvania, and meeting his father was just a distant thought. (WXMI) 
 
 The family is planning a paternity test, just to make sure the belated bombshell in the letter is legit.
– An elderly man who's wanted kids his whole life just learned that he's had one—for 61 years. Tony Trapani and his wife tried for years to have their own children, and when he was cleaning out her filing cabinets after her recent death, he discovered a bombshell of a letter from another woman mailed in 1959: "I have a little boy. He is five years old now. What I'm trying to say Tony is he is your son," the woman wrote. Now Trapani, who's 81 and lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., has met his 61-year-old son, Samuel Childress, who grew up in Pennsylvania assuming his father didn't want to know him, reports the New York Daily News. "He's my full son that I've had my whole life, but why my wife hid that letter is beyond me," Trapani tells Fox 17. "I don't know. She wanted children. She couldn't have any. She tried and tried." Chimes in Childress, "Just to know him now is so important to me—it's going to fill that void." They do, however, plan to perform a paternity test to be sure that the big news is more than just a good story. (Speaking of long-lost relatives, this 18-year-old plans to marry her father, with whom she recently reunited.)