Dylan Stone-Miller, 32, who fathered NINETY-SIX children after he started donating sperm in college to earn money reveals how he quit work to track down his offspring whose names and birthdays he lists on a spreadsheet

A 32-year-old Georgia man who fathered at least 96 children through sperm donations is tracking his children — with a spreadsheet with their names on it and a unique sperm bank ID that allowed them to reconnect.

So far, Dylan Stone-Miller says he’s met 25 of his biological brood — all products of a series of donations he’s made over the course of six years, starting in college.

Stone-Miller was studying psychology at Georgia State at the time and had been arrested for underage drinking. His parents told him to hire a lawyer, so he signed up as a donor to Xytex, a leading sperm bank based in Augusta.

The Atlanta resident would provide a steady stream of donations for six years, raising $100 in the process. He told The Wall Street Journal that at one point he gave permission to the bank to reveal his identity to his descendants – but only after they turned 18.

More than a decade later, Stone-Miller had become a veteran software engineer with a son of his own – a life he put aside after being approached by the adoptive parents of one of his estranged children.

“I consider her my first child,” Stone-Miller said of the now six-year-old Harper, whom he met when he and his wife separated in 2020.

It started with a message from one of the girl’s parents, who lives in Edmonton, Canada.

According to the Journal, the social message read, “I really hope you don’t feel violated in any way, but it’s Canadian Thanksgiving and I wanted to tell you how grateful my family is to you.”

The correspondence was sent by Alicia Bowes, a complete stranger to Stone-Miller at the time, after the mother tracked him down thanks to a series of clues left in his donor file.

Armed with only his first name and his father’s profession as a forensic psychologist, Bowes successfully located the software expert – who would give up his job months later to find the rest of his children and live off his savings.

Once connected, Stone-Miller — whose own son had just left his home in East Atlanta to live with his mother — opened Bowes’ Instagram page and was soon shown the photo of young Harper.

Within days, he asked Bowes — one of the girl’s two mothers — if he could join an already created Facebook group she belonged to, which he saw was named after his sperm bank ID.

About twenty members of the group — reportedly named Xytex 5186 Offspring — decided to form a new group instead, giving Stone-Miller a chance to visit them.

Stone-Miller began donating sperm while studying psychology at Georgia State after he was arrested for underage drinking. His parents told him to hire a lawyer, so he signed up as a donor to Xytex, a leading sperm bank based in Augusta. He would continue this process for about six years, raising $100 per donation in the process

Speaking to the Journal, Stone-Miller said he naturally started with Harper, who discovered upon meeting that he had a sister, Harlow, who was also one of his biological children.

He has since visited them twice, but according to him, it was the first meeting that pushed him to build relationships with as many of his children as possible.

The second meeting happened more recently, last July, said Stone-Miller — who had been in contact with some of his children at the time.

He said it happened during a 10,000-mile road trip he embarked on at the beginning of the summer to see some of his 96 children — reserving the longest time for Harper and Harlow.

He stayed with the family for nine days on July 10 – in an Airbnb near their home – babysitting the youngsters for a night so that their parents could enjoy a night out.

The girls’ mothers, meanwhile, admitted to The Journal that the dynamic Stone-Miller is complex for their clan, and that they have explicitly told their children that the eccentric Atlanta man is not their father.

“I don’t want Harper to feel like she can call him anything,” Bowes said of the somewhat strange situation.

‘He’s not her father. Period,” she continued, citing his absence.

Stone-Miller began maintaining relationships with his widely dispersed brood after his wife split in 2020 – at which point his own son left home to live with his mother. Stone-Miller’s mother, Rebecca Stone (above left), said she has no answer as to why her son is so eager to locate his children, but is happy to see her biological grandchildren

“If she said that in front of us, we’d immediately say, ‘Dylan isn’t your father. He will never be your father. You don’t have a father. You have a donor.’

Speaking to The Journal, Stone-Miller said he didn’t take that claim very well, saying, “It was hard to look my biological daughter in the eye and tell her I wasn’t her father.”

Harper, like some of Stone-Miller’s descendants, has her donor father’s blue eyes and his sister’s blond curls.

Stone-Miller said he was reduced to tears when he first saw her photo, experiencing an unexpected sense of kinship.

He has since met 23 more of his children, and 14 congregations come on his ongoing road trip.

He told the Journal he will finish in September, and for now is keeping a log of the children’s names, ages and birthdays, as well as a note of when he last saw or spoke to them.

Meanwhile, a somewhat wary Bowes told the Journal that while she’s come to understand Stone-Miller better, she realizes he’s still a stranger — citing odd instances of intrusiveness during his visits, such as a desire to get a tattoo. get to remember the dead. from Harper and Harlow’s older brother, Huxley, who matched the siblings the mothers had produced.

We came to the scene when he was going through a difficult time. Being with the kids gave him a newfound sense of purpose. As we get to know him better, we all feel more comfortable,” Bowes said.

“But I feel like he’ll feel more entitled, which could be problematic.

“We have to keep enough walls up to protect our girls and our family, but also make them permeable enough for him to get in.”

“There are times when it feels intrusive with Dylan,” said Bowes, who has had Stone-Miller visit twice in the past year. “It’s about us figuring out what boundaries are, and him exploring his boundaries.”

Stone-Miller’s mother, Rebecca Stone, said she has no answer as to why her son is so eager to locate his children — other than the reason he gave to the Journal: “I wanted to see the kids grow up.”

Now separated from his father – who has remarried in Costa Rica – she said he is happy to see the photos he sends of her biological grandchildren.

“I see facets of Dylan in almost all kids,” she said. “So many of them are blond like him and have blue eyes. I see the spark, the spark he always had.’