Karen*, 35, was standing in the kitchen of her family home when she discovered the truth about her identity. The then-teenager’s parents were going through a divorce and tensions were high. And when Karen said something perceived to be in support of her father, her mother yelled: “He’s not your real father anyway!”
Karen learned that after struggling for years with infertility, her parents had turned to a donor sperm program. The doctors at the clinic recommended to her parents that they “forget about it, pretend it didn’t happen,” and so her parents went on with their lives, content in the knowledge that the truth didn’t really matter, that it would never come out.
Until it did.
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