Woman meets the ‘egg’ she donated in college – and the two sing a heartwarming duet

Singers Amy Throckmorton and Elizabeth Gaba have matching voices – and DNA.

Nearly 20 years ago while Amy donated one of her eggs to help a couple start a family.

On Sunday, she met that egg, through the a cappella she was in 20 years ago, which now counts Elizabeth – who goes by Gaba – among its members.   

Gaba’s parents told her her origin from a young age and, when she turned 18 this year, she decided she would like to meet the egg donor that made her life possible.

As of 2010, more than 18,300 women received donor eggs, and the infertility solution is only becoming more popular. 

The rise of egg donations has brought with it questions over the ethics and effects of a donor meeting ‘their egg,’ but for Amy and Gaba both of California, meeting was a cause for celebration – and singing.

Elizabeth Gaba (left), 18, has always known that her parents used a donor egg. On Sunday, she met that donor: Amy Stockmorton (right) who shared her college major and a cappella group

Gaba had little information to go on when she decided that she wanted to find the woman who had donated an egg to the mother that raised her.

When she turned 18, the fertility clinic where Gaba’s mother had been a patient released details of the egg donor’s file to her. 

But there were not actually many ‘details’ at all: A birth year (1977), the college the donor had attended (University of Southern California) and a grainy glamor shot of a pretty blonde in a hot tub.

Most fertility clinics, in fact, require that egg donors be between 26 and 32, and have a college education, so the donor’s degree wouldn’t have narrowed the list much in most cases. 

Gaba is 18 (left) and sings in the 'SoCal Vocals' at USC where Amy (right) was also a music major nearly 20 years ago

Amy was a member of the a capella group that Gaba sings in nearly 20 years ago

Gaba is 18 (left) and sings in the ‘SoCal Vocals’ at USC where Amy (right) was also a music major nearly 20 years ago

However, Gaba’s donor attended the same college where she is currently a student, and had gotten a degree in music – the same major she is pursuing.

Gaba scoured the internet for additional clues. She also consulted Amanda Newman, who manages her college a cappella group.

Incredibly, Amy had sung in the same a cappella group as well, some 18 years earlier.  

Amy, now 41, had ticked the box to say that it was okay for her to be contacted down the road when she had made the decision to donate eggs during her college years. 

Contact between children and their donor parents remains a tenuous issue in the fertility world.

Some research has suggested that telling donor children where they come from does not benefit them. 

On their first meeting Amy and Gaba sung a heartwarming duet together 

On their first meeting Amy and Gaba sung a heartwarming duet together 

Other studies have indicated that women feel they are not adequately informed or emotionally prepared for the implications of donation down the line.  

But Amy old Fox KTVU that she saw egg donation as ‘a win-win’ for everyone.

‘I wasn’t squeamish about the medical procedures (lots of self-administered shots, etc) and I liked the idea of helping a couple…start a family.’

On Sunday, she met the family she helped start.

Gaba has deep brown, wavy hair, and dark eyes while Amy is blonde with blue eyes. 

They may not look alike, but they certainly sound alike.  

The two women shared a video of them singing together for the first time on Facebook. 

‘Funny story: In college I was an egg donor. Today, I met that egg,’ Amy wrote with her post. 

‘I’m so excited to know her and especially freaked out (in the best way) to hear our voices together.’ 

Amy and Gaba’s voices have similar tones and their harmonies are beautiful – and a little uncanny.

‘Genetics, man!’ Amy wrote. 

Amy even introduced Gaba to her own three children, and told KTVU ‘I do think we’ll continue to have a relationship. She’s a really cool chick and I’m so excited to know her.’



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