2022-04-16
27 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
When Amber Van Moesner was growing up, her parents used to call her their miracle baby.
I was born quite late into my parents marriage, and I had been told my whole life that they were told by doctors that they couldn't conceive and that they had just magically had a healthy baby.
And that was me.
She never questioned that story until she was in her late 20s when she got the results back from a 23andMe genetic test.
So the first thing that popped up was that my ethnicity was predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish.
And that was a huge surprise.
Even after doing some research, she couldn't find anyone on either side of her family who was Jewish.
And I immediately called my parents, and they just kind of swept it under the rug.
My dad was like, oh, I guess like, I must be Jewish then.
But then Amber received a message through 23andMe from a woman who said, hey, we're a match.
I'm your half sister.
I was conceived via a sperm donor.
Were you donor conceived, too?
My mind just started reeling.
I remember my first reaction was I didn't even know what the term donor conceived meant.
This message completely changed Amber's life.
She confronted her parents, and finally the truth came out.
All right, well, this has been heavy on my heart, honey.