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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DE daughter looks nothing like me, but people tell me all the time that she does. She once told me she was sad that she didn't look like anyone else in the family.

Sometime though, I'll take a picture of us and see similarities - like our hair color, or the way we're smiling, or the angle of our eyes. It's just chance (and the fact that we chose a donor who could plausibly be related to me) but it's enough and when I point it out it makes her very happy.

More importantly though, the older she gets the more like me she is in temperament, to the point where it's bizarre. She is SO like me in terms of people skills, assertiveness, sense of humor, mannerisms, etc... that it's uncanny.

So even without a genetic tie, there is an unmistakeable connection/inheritance from me. I've been very surprised (and comforted) by that over the past decade plus...[/quote]

Just found out Saturday that I’m pregnant with DE baby (yay!) and your post made me tear up.  Thank you.[/quote]

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