When Aaron Long donated sperm twenty-five years ago, he didn't realize that one day he would discover that he had ten biological children. But that's what happened when he signed up for 23andMe.

Kal Penn stars in the NBC comedy "Sunnyside". He reads Aaron's essay.

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