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"My dad was a sperm donor": for these two young women, the search for their biological fathers was, in large part, a search for themselves. One has an emotional story of success, while the other is still struggling to find the truth.(REAL-LIFE READS)(Personal account)
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Eve Andrews, 20
When I was 16, I read my mom's e-mail messages, hoping to learn some gossip--she's the school nurse in our small town of 5,000 people--but instead, I got the shock of a lifetime. The e-mail began "I don't know how to tell my daughter...." It was about artificial insemination.
My parents had used an anonymous sperm donor. That meant my father, Doug, who died when I was 7, wasn't my actual father. I got chills staring at the screen. I felt numb and betrayed because my parents had lied to me. But I also felt a strange sense of peace because I never looked anything like my dad or little sister growing up.
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