Aaron Long, Author at Brave New Family Blog

French Documentary: tests adn la fin des secrets de famille

Aaron Long — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:43:53 +0000

We appear starting ~0:55. Sorry, no subtitles. Basically, the story is that France has had fairly restrictive laws regarding DNA kits–not allowed, illegal for people to know their sperm donor–but this is changing partly because there is no way to stop it. They used our family as an example how in the USA where there are no such laws, it’s not a big deal.

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Modern Love Updates: Book, Podcast, Best Of!

Aaron Long — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:10:53 +0000

Aaron’s Modern Love column was selected for the recently published Modern Love book: “Modern Love, True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption.”

His piece was also selected for the Modern Love Podcast, with actor Kal Penn (Kumar from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle) reading the essay, followed by an interview with Aaron and Jess about what has happened in the year since the publication of the column.

And finally, Aaron’s column was selected for the Modern Love 15th anniversary “greatest hits” collection published on the NYT website.

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Not real yet

Aaron Long — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 00:31:14 +0000

Jess, Alice, and Aaron met up in Philly recently for dinner with Kelly and Maryellen from Stage 3 Productions at Giuseppe & Sons. While there haven’t been any recent developments, they haven’t totally given up hope and continue to shop our reality show.

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Inside Edition Appearance

Aaron Long — Wed, 22 May 2019 05:37:28 +0000

Another piece where the interviewer did a thorough job of exploring our story for a few hours and then they used two minutes of it to make brief sketch. Still, kinda cute.

https://www.insideedition.com/mom-finds-love-her-anonymous-sperm-donor-52599

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People Magazine Story

Aaron Long — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:22:33 +0000

We appeared in the March 18th issue of People Magazine (Luke Perry death on cover)!

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Centre Daily Time Story – Aaron’s Hometown Paper

Aaron Long — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:29:38 +0000

I sent the CDT a “news tip” and was pleased they contacted me to do a story. Was fun to think of people I know back home picking up the paper and seeing the story.

Centre Daily Times story

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Marcia’s Story: Love, Loss, Hope, Birth and Crazy Coincidences

Aaron Long — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 07:50:59 +0000

Marcia Jacobs, mother of Emily, who was conceived with Aaron’s sperm, recently wrote this lovely article for ParentMap about her incredible journey as a parent. We recently had a fun dinner at a hibachi place in Tacoma with Marcia and Emily, though Emily was a little tired by the end.

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On German TV

Aaron Long — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:54:56 +0000

A crew from German TV station RTL came to film us a few weeks ago. While we had a fun day, this was the most staged appearance we’ve done. They had me give flowers to Jess, had us hold hands at a restaurant, had us all go rollerblading (for 10 minutes – it was a nice day for winter – we wanted to skate more!), had me look pensively out to sea, etc. I suspect the result is pretty cornball, but my German isn’t so good. They filmed us all day, so we were surprised the piece was so short.

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KIRO Radio Interview

Aaron Long — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:10:26 +0000

Rachel Belle had us into the KIRO studio for a taped interview. While we were a bit tired that day and suffering from interview fatigue, she did a nice job of perking us up and telling our story.

Seattle woman dating her ‘anonymous’ sperm donor, 13 years after giving birth to his daughter

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KIRO 7 TV Feature

Aaron Long — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:13:19 +0000

First appearance on local TV news. Glad to see a story that focused a bit more on all the kids rather than just on Jess’ and my improbable relationship, as fascinating as that is. My biological daughter Emily and her mom Marcia visited for the shoot.

Emily being interviewed by Siemny Kim

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