I AM AN ONLY child, but I have one sister. Well, one that I know of. There are probably more.
Confusing, I know. Yet my situation is one shared by tens of thousands of donor-conceived people in the UK alone. According to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the number of women using egg donors has risen sharply to just under 4,000 a year. Meanwhile, around 2,000 children are conceived annually in the UK with the help of donor sperm. And I, unknowingly, was one of them.
I grew up happy, imaginative, and content with my own company. While other friends had siblings, I had a tight-knit unit of three: me, my mum and my dad.
But when I was 13, my parents sat me down across our small kitchen…
