Back in 1998, Todd Whitehurst was a graduate student at Stanford University. One day, he noticed an ad in the school newspaper seeking male students interested in donating sperm. For the next four years, Todd donated his sperm to the same clinic. He simply wanted to help people start or grow their families. Like all donor dads, Todd received a unique donor ID number and signed an agreement to remain anonymous. (Families are only given basic donor stats such as age, birthdate, and location.)
That’s where a woman named Wendy enters the picture. Wendy is the mother of a donor son, Ryan, who yearned to find his donor father — but all he had was a few bare-boned facts. Together, Wendy and Ryan founded a networking website for donor kids looking to connect with their donor dads by matching their donor ID numbers. “It’s an innate human desire to want to know where we come from,” Wendy says.
Today, Todd Whitehurst is a 49-year-old computer engineer who works at Google. The man who regularly donated his sperm during college never thought his unique donor ID number would become the gateway to a slew of improbable meetings — all because of a stranger named Wendy.
Scroll down to see what happened when Todd’s “donor kids” began tracking him down…
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