My Life as a Test Tube Baby

Decades of hidden truths, setbacks, and one huge discovery

Louise McLoughlin
Elemental
Published in
7 min readJul 11, 2018

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Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash

I was a little tipsy on an empty train heading back into London, my ribs aching from laughing harder than I had in years.

It was the first day of 2018, less than two months since I’d found out I had a half-sister. It was my third time meeting her, and it would be another month before I told…

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Louise McLoughlin
Elemental

@LouiseJoUK | Restless journalist | Fan of the Oxford comma | Lover of NY & Chicago pizza equally