“How Much For a Dozen?”

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“How Much For a Dozen?”

Not too long ago, I was regularly bombarded with advertisements from egg banks promising upwards of $30,000 for successful egg retrievals. Now that I’m officially over the age of 25, the ads I’m seeing have shifted toward fertility cultivation and hormone tracking rather than egg harvesting to pay off college debt. Clearly, online algorithms now see me as a seeker of fertility solutions rather than a supplier. I’m no longer a chicken: I’m the cu…