2019-09-26
17 分钟Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Magna Chakrabarti.
Some modern love stories are timeless, but others belong very much to a particular moment.
This week's story by Erin Long is about a biological family that could only exist today.
Erin's essay is read by Cal Penn.
He's best known for his work in Harold and Kumar and House, and he's starring now in NBC's Sunnyside, which premieres this Thursday.
I didnt meet my girlfriend Jessica until twelve years after our daughter Alice was born.
Let me explain.
Nearly 25 years ago, I returned from a year of teaching English abroad, moved in with my mother, and, lacking prospects, began driving a cab.
One day I saw a newspaper ad seeking healthy men 1835 to participate in a semen donation program.
Donors is the standard industry word, yet virtually all of us are paid $40 a pop is what I received.
In 1994.
I applied to sell my sperm and sold twice weekly for a year.
At the time, I was in a long distance relationship, so this seemed like a good outlet.
When I told my mother, she presciently wondered aloud if this was the only way she was going to have grandchildren.