January of 2019, my boyfriend of a short 4 months purchased me this cool gift where you submit your DNA to a website and it tells you about your ancestry, your traits, and your potential genetic illnesses. One thing that is less advertised, is that it also connects you to the people who share your DNA. Here is my story. I received the results to this 23 and Me test & I eagerly opened it, excited to see what my true background was. I am racially ambiguous, and although we’ve always grown to believe we are bi-racial, 3 quarters black…

We already had a healthy and happy child of our own but we felt our family was not finished. We had personal reasons for this that would be too long to discuss here. We were scared to death of the idea of an egg donor and for a long time it was not an option. It felt wrong, we couldn’t get our heads around the idea. For almost a decade we looked at profiles of egg donors and discussed the issue of egg donors, our feelings, the child, the donor, our family, society, the expense, and so on. Then I…