What an incredible love story!!!
In 2005, Jessica Share gave birth to a daughter, Alice, and became the self-proclaimed “first lesbian parent” she had ever met.
She did so by using a sperm bank near her home in the American Midwest — one that used only anonymous sperm donors and required the men to sign “paperwork that legally barred them from ever seeking custody of the children they helped create.”
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It was exactly what Share and her partner wanted: the ability to raise a child, without the sperm donor later entering their lives and making it needlessly complicated. If she only knew what was in store for her future!!
Twelve years later, after her relationship had long since ended and Share was a single woman again, she details in a touching, heartfelt piece for the BBC how she actually ended up meeting her sperm donor, Aaron Long, and very quickly felt a strong attraction for the man.
As it turned out, Long had long been donating sperm — and was actually the biological father to several different children through the program!
Share writes (below):
“I had been dating a man for a few years who is also named Aaron David, with a similar last name. On our vacation, donor Aaron [Long] flirtatiously suggested there had been a mix-up at the Bureau of Boyfriends. I smiled and demurred. I was already in a relationship and was conscious that donor Aaron was an important person to my kids, but not someone who should necessarily be part of my own life. I didn’t want to spoil it for them.
When my relationship with old Aaron ended, I found myself wondering if my children’s person could also be my person, and if Seattle was a place for us to land while we figured it out. Aaron’s kindness and continued connection with his exes convinced me that it would be safe to give it a chance.
One night, we walked the neighbourhood and sat in a local cemetery, talking about DNA, what the kids were like, and what our dreams were.
When heterosexual people meet and date and get married, they often look with devotion at one another and think it would be wonderful to have little people who look like both of them. I’d already spent a decade with those little people. I spent my first date with Aaron relaying their lives to him. I already knew him and knew he was just like these people I love more than anyone else in the world. He was already family in some ways. His smirk and his colouring are those of my youngest daughter. His empathy and socialism? My eldest.”
Awww!!
And she continued, remarking about their connection (below):
“It’s hard to tell if DNA played a role in our relationship. I know that I am attracted to Aaron for all the reasons that seemed wonderful when shopping for him in a sperm donor catalogue years ago. He is thoughtful, persistent, and academically-minded. He is enchanted by words. He is empathetic, versed in stories about people and the strange things they sometimes do. He doesn’t much care what’s expected of him. He often plays his own music. To his own drum. Sometimes in a turban.”
Incredible!
GMA even picked up the story of how the pair fell into love, unlikely as it may seem (below):
https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1082629082997608448
What a one-in-a-million story!
Just goes to show… families come in all shapes and sizes!!
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[Image via GMA/Twitter.]
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