The title says it all. What are the odds of having someone you look alike but you are not related? Is it as many odds as you can have to stand in the same room full of strangers but you may not know one of these strangers is your blood? What if you discovered that you are not an only child but you have a half sibling or two? But what if they are more than 50? Yes, I said fifty. Again, what are the odds, right?

In this documentary entitled, Our Father, streaming now in Netflix. this is a story about infertility and sperm donors and it is also about a Doctor Cline, the main subject of the documentary. In the title, it may seem to sound good when you read it, like that’s what I thought in the first glance before I even watch the trailer not knowing that this documentary is more interesting than what I thought.

The Documentary starts with Jacob Ballard who took a DNA Test, linking her to multiple match-siblings. After finding out the results, she discovered that she has at least seven siblings. Later then, introduced the fertility doctor of Jacoba’s mother, Doctor Cline. He has been a fertility doctor from the 70s and the 80s. He has quite the reputation because he is well known with his successful work but little did the ladies that go to him knew, after few years his successful work will mark on the history of the medical field.

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