2007年NPR美国国家公共电台一月-From One Question, Two Families Spring

Time now for StoryCorps .

Many of the stories in this traveling oral history project have been about relationships. Today, two friends, Cathy Resmer and Jules Fishelman, talk about how their relationship was transformed at a potluck dinner.

You are facing the sink and you are washing dishes and we are talking and there's a pause and then you ask "would you like to be our sperm¹ donor²? And I just, I have no idea what's going on. I felt completely warmed by even the question. But I never asked you how you got to that point.

Well, Ann Elise and I got civil-unioned in 2000. I had never thought about having kids until I was with Ann-Elise but I really wanted to have a known donor like if you've ever seen Star Wars? For example. You know that the whole trilogy is about Luke and his search for his father. You wanted to make sure that his father was not Darth Vader. I did. That was part of it. I, I appreciate that. You know, I just, I really just wanted my child to grow up, not having to ask that question in that way. So then we thought, okay, so who are we gonna ask and you were the one on the list. There's only one and the other reason that we picked you is because you're the kind of person that we want our child to grow into,'cos you are just so kind and gentle and we are happy to have you as part of our lives. Thank you. It's amazing to hear you talk about that. I knew that when you asked me, you were asking for something so personal and so serious. That simply being asked was an honor³ but I didn't know at the time that saying yes that you and Ann-Elise were gonna go on a hunt to find me a good woman but you hooked⁴ me up with Rachel and now we've had our first child. They won't grow up in the same family under the same roof and the same rules. But they're gonna be hopefully very close and it totally blows away the image of family but it's, it's family nonetheless⁵ and I love them.

Jules Fishelman and Cathy Resmer in Burlington, Vermont. StoryCorps interviews are archived at the Library of Congress⁶. Learn how to record your story at npr.org.
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civil union
A legal union of a same-sex couple, sanctioned by civil authority

1 sperm   

n.精子，精液

参考例句：

• Only one sperm fertilises an egg.只有一个精子使卵子受精。
• In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。

2 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

3 honor   

n.光荣；敬意；荣幸；vt.给…以荣誉；尊敬

参考例句：

• I take your visit as a great honor.您的来访是我莫大的光荣。
• It is a great honor to receive that prize.能拿到那个奖是无上的光荣。

4 hooked   

adj.钩状的，弯曲的

参考例句：

• I first got hooked on scuba diving when I was twelve. 12 岁时我开始迷上了带水肺潜水。
• He hooked his arm round her neck and pulled her head down. 他一只胳膊钩在她的脖子上，把她的头拉低。

5 nonetheless   

adv.尽管如此，依然，然而

参考例句：

• Though he's fool,I like him nonetheless.虽然他很笨，我仍然喜欢他。
• His face is serious but nonetheless very friendly.他一脸严肃，但还是非常友好。

6 Congress   

n.(代表)大会；(C-:美国等国的)国会，议会

参考例句：

• There were some days to wait before the Congress.大会的召开还有几天时间。
• After 18 years in Congress,he intented to return to private life.在国会供职18年后，他打算告老还乡。