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Jon hopes to learn something about his donor dad but isn't eager to meet him. "I think it would be awkward. All I could say would be 'How dare you!' or 'Good job!' " Doron and Gage, too, are uninterested in meeting donor fathers or siblings. "Beth," whose search for Donor White was chronicled in this Seed article, says her daughter "Joy" hopes to meet her donor father and that she imagines he's "like Dumbledore, the good wizard in the Harry Potter books." But Beth is keener on the search mission than Joy. In general, parents are much more enthused to locate genetic family members than the kids are. That may change as the repository children become older and more curious about where they come from.