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FERTILITY SCANDAL The doctor who took his secrets to the GRAVE

Joey Hoofdman always had a feeling he and his father were not biologically related.

He felt distant from the man who was raising him, and found he had little in common with him.

But the day he discovered his gut instinct was correct was not the wonderful moment he’d dreamed of.

In fact, it placed him at the heart of one of Europe’s biggest fertility scandals.

After years of wondering, a psychologist helping him with depression urged Joey to speak to his mother about

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