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theatlantic: Mother’s Helper: A Shocking Thing I Learned After Giving Up My Eggs It’s hard not to wonder how those possible kids turned out, but of course I signed away the right to know. I used it to buy time, to finish a book that I did finish, which an agent is shopping around now. More often I just imagine my presence as a running joke in those two families, the perpetual scapegoat for anything the parents didn’t want to rise out of their mess of DNA. She’s always picked last for softball teams — blame the donor. She has ADD — blame the donor. She caught a cold, has a pimple, doesn’t like pineapple — blame the donor. The mother will laugh every time, maybe a little too long, after her daughter has already left the room. You didn’t get that from me, she’ll say. Nope, not from me. Read more. [Image: Aaron Amat/Shutterstock] Longreads: An Egg Donor’s Experience

theatlantic:

Mother’s Helper: A Shocking Thing I Learned After Giving Up My Eggs

It’s hard not to wonder how those possible kids turned out, but of course I signed away the right to know. I used it to buy time, to finish a book that I did finish, which an agent is shopping around now. More often I just imagine my presence as a running joke in those two families, the perpetual scapegoat for anything the parents didn’t want to rise out of their mess of DNA. She’s always picked last for softball teams — blame the donor. She has ADD — blame the donor. She caught a cold, has a pimple, doesn’t like pineapple — blame the donor.

The mother will laugh every time, maybe a little too long, after her daughter has already left the room. You didn’t get that from me, she’ll say. Nope, not from me.

Read more. [Image: Aaron Amat/Shutterstock]

Longreads: An Egg Donor’s Experience

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