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Woman fell in love with her 'anonymous' sperm donor
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At the age of 42 newly single Aminah Hart made a decision that changed her life in a way that she never could have imagined, leading her to meet and fall in love with the stranger whose sperm she used to conceive her daughter.
At the time, the Melbourne professional wanted to have a child but had already suffered the tragic loss of two sons due to a genetic disorder called x-linked myotubular myopathy, a condition that affects muscles used for movement and occurs almost exclusively in boys.
When deciding which sperm donor to choose she looked for a man that had the key qualities she wanted in her child.
Scott Andersen’s sperm had been in 'quarantine' since 2010 when Aminah chose it in 2011, so the sperm bank had time to rule out diseases.
She had grown up without knowing her own father, having last seen him when she was just 11 months old, so was keen for her future child to meet their father.
‘Six months later my mum had been snooping around Google. She knew that Scott had said he was a cattle breeder and was an amateur footy coach,’ Aminah said.
On August 18, 2013, Aminah and Leila drove an hour and a half from Melbourne to Scott’s house near Phillip Island, about 140 km south-southeast of Melbourne, where they met not only him but two of his children.
The meeting went so well that Aminah and Leila began seeing Scott every few weeks. Leila had just started to walk and when she toddled up to Scott and sat with him, Aminah thought it was a ‘lovely thing’.
‘After that he emailed me and said he would like to see her quite regularly and we agreed fortnightly visits… then he said "would it be OK if we did it more regularly" and we started meeting weekly.’
After that things changed, Aminah began looking at Scott in a different light.
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Beautiful story..they look so good as a family 
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