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szdaily -> Kaleidoscope
Australian woman falls in love with sperm donor
     2014-November-6  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    IT is the story of an improbable modern family — a back-to-front love affair in which a woman seeks out and falls in love with an anonymous sperm donor who fathered her baby daughter.

    “How I Met Your Father,” which airs on ABC’s Australian Story on Monday night, tells the tale of this intriguing romance.

    Advertising professional, Aminah Hart, met Scott Andersen, a farmer, just before their daughter Leila’s first birthday.

    Hart had lost two baby boys to a genetic disorder passed on from mother to son. At age 42 and newly single, she felt anonymous sperm donation and IVF was her last chance to mother a healthy child.

    “It takes the romance out of it a bit, doesn’t it, when you decide to take on donor sperm to try and have a baby,” Hart said.

    Three bits of paper that outlined the features of each potential donor were all she had to go on.

    Of the five donors, one stood out. He described himself as happy and healthy, tipping the scales in his favor for Hart who hadn’t had much of either in recent times.

    Andersen, a twice-divorced father of four himself, spends his days artificially inseminating cattle, so helping someone else make a family didn’t seem such a stretch. But he told no one about it, never expecting anyone to come looking for him until he was elderly.

    “A lot of people think, you know ‘He’s a shocker, that bloke you know?’ And I got a little bit of that so it’s kinda good to tell the real story so people know. Cos you couldn’t make that up,” Andersen said.

    When Hart’s blonde-haired, blue-eyed baby, Leila, was born two years ago, Hart — who had never known her own West Indian father — became curious about the anonymous man who had helped make her.

    Once Hart’s mother declared she was sure she had found Leila’s biological father by googling clues to his identity, Hart made a formal request for contact. And the rest is history with the pair now together, a year into a happy relationship.

    Andersen had been in a relationship with another woman when Leila and Hart came into his life, but the woman believed he shouldn’t be spending so much time with the baby he helped conceive, so they broke up. Not long afterwards, Hart and Andersen began a romantic relationship.

    “It’s real Mills and Boon stuff, isn’t it? It’s a bit of a fairy story really. But it’s real so that’s good. It’s not just a dream you know,” said Helen Marshall, Hart’s mother.

    “I thought this must be the first time this has ever happened in the world. What are the chances of that happening?” said Julie Buxton a friend.

    (SD-Agencies)

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