only then / realize (realized) / I / my great-grandfather / was a pirate
Only then did I realize my great-grandfather was a pirate.
would / had an aunt / never / towns away / guessed / that / I / have / living two
Never would I have guessed that I had an aunt living two towns away.
tell (told) me / my mother / only when / I asked / that I’m part Irish
Only when I asked did my mother tell me that I’m part Irish.
without using / have found / no way / my cousins / a DNA ancestry kit / would / I
No way would I have found my cousins without using the DNA ancestry kit.
hardly / I had uploaded / my DNA / cousins / started messaging me / distant
Hardly had I uploaded my DNA when distant cousins started messaging me.
I sent (sent) in / a DNA sample / Asian ancestry / not until / I know / that I have
Not until I sent in a DNA sample did I know that I have Asian ancestry.
South America / to find / be able / relatives / in / never / I / think (thought) / would
Never did I think I would be able to find relatives in South America.
never before / had seen / I / so many / redheads / at a family reunion
Never before had I seen so many redheads at a family reunion.
little / I suspect (suspected) / that / my love for pasta / came / from my Italian roots
Little did I suspect that my love for pasta came from my Italian roots.
from my / I / realize (realized) / little / grandmother / I inherited / my freckles
Little did I realize I inherited my freckles from my grandmother.
never again / trust / will / a family legend / I / after this chaos
Never again will I trust a family legend after this chaos.
not until / I traced / my family tree / I find (found) out / I'm 1% African
Not until I traced my family tree did I find out I'm 1% African.