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    The Family Weekly: This Fertility Doctor Had a Secret. Then DNA Testing Came Along.

    Why teenage boys have more free time than teenage girls, and how to talk (productively) to your family about politics when you disagree
    by Amal Ahmed Mar 22, 2019 3 minutes

    This Week in Family

    (The Voorhes / portraits by Alyssa Schukar / Associated Press)

    A woman gets a message from a stranger claiming to be her long-lost half sibling. She assumes that it’s a scam—until more messages start to flood her inbox, all from people claiming to be her half siblings from a single sperm donor. The donor, it turns out, was a fertility doctor named Donald Cline, who had been treating patients in the 1980s. What

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