""There's something I have to tell you," my mother said in a tone that suggested a life-changing reveal was coming my way at Applebee's. "You're adopted?" I asked. At 22, I knew my dark coloring had long been a point of discomfort for my parents, both blond with light eyes. "Who does she look like...?" people would ask, fishing for a story."
""I always knew my parents tried to have a baby for five years, and that my mother's beloved gynecologist helped her conceive me, their only child. What I only learned that night was how her doctor helped - by inseminating my mother with donated sperm. "The doctor told me to lie on my back for 10 minutes after - I insisted on lying there for an hour, just to be sure," my mother said proudly.""
At 22 I learned that my mother had been inseminated by her gynecologist with donated sperm and that my father was not my biological parent. Both parents had light features while I had dark coloring, which had long made them uncomfortable. The insemination was performed in a doctor's office in the 1970s for married couples with an expectation of anonymity. My mother framed the revelation to show the sacrifice my father made and to explain the emotional distance I had felt from him. My mother remembered following the doctor's instructions and insisted on lying for an hour afterward.
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