Vera and Linda are donor children: ‘Always a feeling that something was not right’ | Stories behind the news

“We don’t look alike at all, but we soon learned that we both love to write and are curious and sensitive.”

Thijs Rooimans

Vera de Lange (39) and Linda Sprado (48) only found out three years ago that they have the same father. They were both born with the help of a donor, but they only discovered this at a later age. Together the half sisters wrote the book Shadow Family, in which they not only share their own story, but also interviewed ten other donor children about the search for their origin. Candidly, they talk about the impact of having a biological family that is half unknown.