2019年6月28日星期五

I’m 20. I Have 32 Half Siblings.

This Is My Family Portrait.

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Photographs by Eli Baden-Lasar

"Why am I here? Whom can I hold accountable for this feeling? The bank? My parents? The donor? Myself? What am I doing exactly? What am I trying to accomplish?"

20-year-old Eli Baden-Lasar always knew he was conceived using a sperm donor.

But he was 19 before he discovered he had half siblings.

Over 10 months, he traveled to 16 states to meet and photograph all 32 of them.

This is the story of his family portrait.

Sperm Donors Can't Stay Secret Anymore. Here's What That Means.

Vials of donor sperm frozen by liquid nitrogen in a holding tank at the California Cryobank. Getty Images

By SUSAN DOMINUS

Sperm banks never imagined a world where donors could be tracked down by DNA. But now children can find their biological fathers — and each other.

Here Are Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire

Smoke rose from the backlot of Universal Studios on June 1, 2008, in Universal City, Calif. David McNew/Getty Images

By JODY ROSEN

Some musicians have filed suit. Others are rethinking what the company told them about their masters over the past decade.

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