The price of eggs
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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When Ashleigh was a freshman in college, she saw a flier: earn up to $10,000 by selling your eggs. She thought, “Sure, I could use the money!” Her decision to sell her eggs set her on a journey that would define the next ten years of her life. And it would fundamentally change the way she thought about starting her own family.
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| 1:12.0 | One day, her freshman year of college, Ashley Griffin was leaving the dining hall when she saw a poster. |
| 1:20.0 | There was like a bulletin board that had different campus activities and clubs on them. |
| 1:27.0 | And there was one flyer on there that was like, become an egg donor, make up to like $10,000. |
| 1:33.0 | $10,000? And all you have to do is sell your eggs. It kind of blew Ashley's mind. |
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