[man] Can you find my son?

It would mean the world.

[woman] The main thing I would love him to know is, he was wanted.

[Davina] In the last year, over 4,000 people from across the UK have contacted the "Long Lost Family" team... Do you know what her full name would be?

...asking us to find their missing family.

[woman] Many times I just cried into the bed covers.

I just wanted to find my baby.

I just want to say sorry.

[man] I need to find my son.

There's a hole in my heart.

[Nicky] Using trained intermediaries, DNA experts and investigators all over the world... -Please check this name.

-...we find people... -Donna.

-Hello.

...nobody else could trace.

They loved you and they still love you.

We uncover incredible family secrets.

Why would they be faked?

-This was her dying wish.

-Really?

So she wanted it.

[Davina] And answer questions that have haunted entire lives.

She wants to see me?

-Ta-da!

-[child laughs] [woman] We all find each other in the end, pal.

Louise has been found.

-They call her Carol!

-You're joking!

[Davina] This week, a couple desperate to find out what happened to their first born child.

[woman] The not knowing is horrible.

It's just all loss and grief and pain.

And a son seeking answers from the mother who abandoned him.

She just left me.

She knew where I was, but she never come back for me.

[dramatic music playing] Our first search comes from Ireland and a couple who had their child taken from them over 40 years ago.

Who are you looking for?

Uh, our son, Sean, who was born the 18th of April in 1974 in London.

And why are you looking for him?

Why?

Well... Why?

[man] We loved him.

And we didn't want him adopted, we never wanted him adopted.

He's lost, and we want him back.

[contemplative music playing] Mind the cutlery now.

Phyllis and Kevin Haran run a guest house on the West Coast of Ireland.

They've been together since they were teenagers.

I met Phyllis on the 22nd June, 1973.

Um, just got our summer holidays from school.

Well, I fell madly in love with him, yeah.

We were inseparable, really.

-There you are, darling.

-Don't spill it on top of me!

But just a few months into their relationship, Phyllis discovered she was pregnant.

Knowing it would cause a scandal within their Catholic community, the couple hatched a plan to run away to London.

Didn't tell our parents, just packed a bag and just went.

Brave!

We were looking forward to it.

Lights shining, you know, 24/7.

Well, I was excited.

When you're young, you think you can do anything.

You're not frightened of anything.

You get a place, keep the baby.

The teenagers found casual work and rented a room together.

[Kevin] Anson Road, this is it.

It's 174.

And there was our room up there.

That was the room.

Oh, I thought it was wider than that.

-We were smaller, weren't we?

-[laughs] We were smaller.

Six months after they had settled in, Phyllis gave birth to a baby boy, who they named Sean.

[Phyllis] He was gorgeous.

He was 7 pounds, 2 ounces, fine, healthy baby.

Oh, I remember, he was lying on his belly and he was well able to lift his head up and look all around the room.

[laughs] Yeah, some memories.

We were young, we were happy, and very excited.

He was a beautiful little baby.

But this happy family couldn't last.

Their landlady didn't know they were living there with a baby, and one day she spotted him.

She said, "Look, you can't stay with the baby here."

So she said, "I'll give you until this evening, you have to go."

You know, she didn't even give us time.

She didn't say it like that either, she said, "Get your bastard out of here!"

She was very angry, yeah.

Yeah.

But, um... so...

Suddenly homeless with a baby, the couple turned to a Catholic agency for help.

They agreed to place Sean in the care of a family with the possibility of adoption, if Phyllis and Kevin couldn't find their feet.

Well, it was very difficult, you know, having him and keeping him for five weeks and then having to give him... give him up.

But I thought we'd get him back again.

After two months, the couple had found permanent jobs and a flat.

So they went back to the agency to pick up Sean.

But things didn't turn out as expected.

[Phyllis] They said that he's gone to a Spanish family.

He's happy and it's the best thing if he stayed with them.

Their only chance to get Sean was to go to court.

[Kevin] We wanted our child back.

But the judge looked at us and says, "You're young.

You come from big families in Ireland.

I'm sure you're gonna have plenty more children yourselves.

The people that have Sean, they're in the position to look after a child, while you're not, and, um, you're doing him a good deed.

So I order that, that the, um, adoption be finalized."

[Phyllis] Oh, I couldn't believe it.

You know, I felt betrayed.

Yeah.

Devastated.

It's horrible.

Well, I said, "We'll find him wherever you put him.

And I'll keep searching till we do find him and we will take him back."

Kevin and Phyllis went on to get married and have more children.

The family eventually returned to Ireland.

But in 2008 they suffered a second loss.

Ryan, my other son, he was killed in a road traffic accident.

Twenty-four he was, yeah.

[Kevin] Ryan is dead.

The chapter was closed.

It's... it's the hardest thing any parents will have to go through.

But it-- it's finalized, it's over, where this adoption's still carrying on, still paying for, you know?

So which is worse, you know?

I think adoption is sometimes worse than death.

And it goes on and on and on and on and on and on.

[Phyllis] The not knowing, that is horrible.

It's like a wave, that's how I'd describe it.

Just like a wave coming in, it just, you can't stop it.

It's just all loss and grief and pain.

[Kevin] Just need to find him, you know.

And find that he's happy.

And that love is still there, will always be there, even if we never meet him, it's there for him.

Yeah.

[Nicky] Kevin and Phyllis had already been searching for decades when they asked for our help.

The first thing we had to do was find out whether Sean had been given a new name.

We used a specialist intermediary to access his adoption file.

And they found out he's now called Ruben Molinero.

Although we knew Ruben had been adopted by a Spanish couple, the adoption had taken place in Aldershot.

So, we started our search in the UK.

However, there was no trace of anyone with that name, but, of course... there was a strong chance they'd moved back to Spain.

[Spanish guitar playing] A Ruben Molinero of the right age was found, who was a member of Spain's elite mountain rescue team.

Now living in a small mountain town west of Madrid, he confirmed he was the man we were looking for.

Ruben's adoptive parents brought him to Spain when he was four years old.

With their support, he agreed to meet me.

Phyllis and Kevin have spent years trying to find their son, to see him again.

And to let him know that it wasn't their choice to give him up.

But what will this mean to Ruben?

Did he know he was adopted?

Does he know anything about his birth parents?

And will he want to know them now?

Ruben lives with his wife Raquel and their 11-year-old son, Alex.

Hi, Ruben, it's Nicky Campbell.

-Ruben!

-Hola.

Hi, Nicky.

Nice to meet you.

-Buenos días.

-Buenos días.

¿Qué tal?

Pase, pase.

We found you.

-Come on.

-After you.

[Nicky] Hola, Ariadne.

-Nice to meet you.

-You too.

We're being joined by a local English speaker who's going to translate the conversation.

So, how much of a surprise was it to find out that your birth parents were looking for you?

[speaking Spanish] [in Spanish] What do you actually know about the circumstances around your adoption?

So your birth parents, Kevin and Phyllis, had you, but had nowhere to live.

They asked a Catholic agency to help them, and they've said, "The baby can be looked after by somebody with a view to adoption.

And if you manage to sort yourself out, then you can keep the baby."

-And they found a job.

-Mm-hmm.

But they had to go to court to get you back.

And the judge ruled in favor of your adoptive parents, saying that they were married, secure, they could give you a better future.

Okay.

Your birth parents have no problem with your parents.

-Mm-hmm.

-No problem.

I understand.

The important thing is, you were not rejected.

Okay.

They loved you and they still love you.

Okay.

[Nicky] Mm.

Now, I have a picture of you when you were a baby with your parents.

-Would you like to see the picture?

-Yes.

You have two sisters... and also, um, your birth parents had a son, but he died in 2008.

So he was 24.

-Mm.

-Yeah.

They want to see you and they want to tell you how much they have always loved you.

[peaceful music playing] [Davina] But before we reunite Ruben with his parents, our second case is particularly mysterious.

Most of the adoptions we investigate on Long Lost Family are organized through official institutions.

But this next story is unusual for us.

A son, taken in by a family informally, leaving him with no paper trail and crucially, no idea what happened to his birth mother.

-[contemplative music playing] -[gulls calling] [man] She just left me.

She knew where I was, but she never come back for me.

What happened?

I hope she's always thought of me.

-Is that important to you, to think that she... -Yeah.

Why is that?

Um... because I think it means I wasn't forgotten about and she still loved me and I was still her son.

-[woman laughing] -[man] Good girl, good girl!

Sixty-four-year-old Michael O'Neil lives on Teesside, where he's raised his family with his wife Sue.

We've been married since 1976.

Give it a good whip!

-We're a very happy family.

-Yes!

We've had four children.

Five grandkids.

Love them all to bits.

Can I get one vanilla, please?

[Michael] We can talk about anything.

Despite his open, happy family set-up now, Michael's own beginnings were kept secret from him.

[Michael] The family who brought me up used to just say, "You don't need to know where you came from."

See, I don't know anything.

Michael grew up in Glasgow as part of the O'Neil family.

For the first 16 years of his life, he thought Katie O'Neil was his mum.

It was a very happy childhood and I wouldn't change anything.

It wasn't until Michael applied to join the navy that he found out the truth.

[Michael] I went down to the Careers Office in Glasgow.

And they went, "Right, we just need your mother to come down and sign, and tell her to bring your birth certificate along 'cause you're under 18."

Remember opening it up, looking at it and saying, I had to do a double take 'cause the name on it was wrong.

I went, "Whose, whose, whose is this, this isn't me?!"

When Michael O'Neil was 16, he made an earth shattering discovery.

[Michael] When I seen my birth certificate for the very first time, that's when I thought, "Who am I?"

'Cause the name on it was Michael Casey.

I went, "I'm Michael O'Neil."

And my mother went, "No, Michael Casey's your name."

But that wasn't all.

The birth certificate listed his mother as Catherine Casey.

I went, "Who's Catherine Casey?"

She says, "Well, she was your mother, but she couldn't look after you.

She left you and I've brought you up and you're my boy."

Michael was told that Catherine Casey was a young local girl who'd simply left him with the family when he was just a baby.

[Michael] She left me to be babysat and never come back for me.

Ever since, he's tried to get to the bottom of what happened to his birth mother, Catherine Casey.

-Bye.

-Give you a ring when I get there, okay?

-Okay.

-See you, ta-ta.

Whenever he returned home to Scotland, on leave from the navy, Michael would ask his extended family if they could tell him anything about the woman who had left him and where she'd gone.

I used to ask, "Well, whereabouts did she go then?

Someone must have some idea."

"No, no, we don't."

And it was like that for years, and it's a brick wall I come against.

The older members of the family who raised Michael never broke their silence.

-Hi, Michael!

-But he's meeting two of his own generation, Dot and Jan, to find out if they ever heard anything about his birth mother.

-Let's go and get a cup of tea.

-Oh, great.

-Give us that Glasgow cup of tea!

-[laughs] Right, Michael, shut the door.

[Michael] There's a lot of questions... -To be answered.

-Yeah.

Did you say you used to hear my Ma sometimes talking about me?

-Mm-hmm.

-In the room?

And as soon as you walked in, it all went quiet.

-Quiet.

-As if they were not-- No, that was all shtum.

They was all... it was all, "Out, out, we're speaking."

Was it, "there's something they don't want me to find out"?

-Possibly.

-Aye, why did her family not help?

-All I can think of is, um-- -They've never known about you.

-Maybe they've not known.

-Maybe her family were... ashamed-- out of wedlock, whatever, specially in the '50s, it was, you were a bad lassie.

A girl can make one mistake, and that's it, her life's ruined.

It's been great to see youse again.

'Cause she made one mistake and I was her mistake.

I want to find my mum.

I laid awake at night thinking, "What could have happened to her?"

I have to do it now.

I can't leave it any longer.

We need to find her.

Michael came to us because he could get no answers from his family.

But because the O'Neils had simply taken him on rather than seek formal adoption, it was gonna be difficult for us too.

With no official adoption paperwork, the only record was the birth certificate.

But Catherine Casey had registered his birth with her name and address, so of course, this was our starting point.

But we could find no record of a Catherine Casey of the right age living anywhere in the UK.

We tried different spellings of her name, we looked in countries where people typically emigrate to.

Nothing.

With the paper trail leading nowhere, we wondered if DNA might help.

In recent years, thousands of people have been adding their information to DNA databases.

So, we felt it was worth a try.

With Michael's permission, we entered his DNA onto the database.

Immediately we found a match.

But it wasn't Catherine.

It was Catherine's granddaughter.

She told us that sadly Catherine died 12 years ago.

But there was someone who might be able to answer Michael's questions.

Catherine had had a daughter, Lorraine.

We had found Michael's half-sister.

Michael has always wanted to know what made his birth mother leave him, a newborn baby?

He finds it hard to understand how she disappeared and never came back.

Will Lorraine be able to answer his questions?

And did she even know about him before we got in touch?

Despite recovering from major heart surgery, she wants to meet to talk about her brother as soon as possible.

-Hi, Lorraine.

I'm Nicky.

-Hi.

How are you?

-Nice to meet you.

-It's nice to meet you.

-How you feeling?

-How are you?

-All right.

-Good, good.

-[door closes] -So how was your operation?

[Lorraine] I'm getting there.

It's four weeks now and I'm getting there.

So I didn't want to wait any longer.

It's, um, very emotional.

Because I've always known about him.

-You've always known about him?

-Yeah.

Always known.

-So your mother spoke about him?

-Yeah.

He's always been part of me 'cause I've known that he was my brother.

The kids, they always knew that was their uncle, but we've never met him.

This must be wonderful for you?

It is, but I wish my mum had the chance to meet him.

And what was it like for her, the fact that she wasn't with him?

Part of her heart was shut down because of it.

She was a troubled person.

Do you think he was a part of that?

Oh, he was... that was the reason.

She could never get over not having him.

It broke her as a person.

And she just never got over losing him.

What was the story of how she separated from him?

-What happened?

-My mother was young.

She got involved with a married man.

She became pregnant, and in those days it was real shame to the family.

She told me they just took her to the train station.

-Who did?

-Her family.

She landed here, actually, in Blackpool.

So she thought that her family, her blood family, had brought him up?

Yes, and they were raising him with their children.

That didn't happen.

Oh, my God!

Now the story that came from his mother, Katie O'Neil, was that one day your mother came with the baby and said, "Will you look after this baby for me?"

And then she left and she never came back.

And he was brought up by the O'Neils in a very loving way.

But he did ask questions and he was just told, um, "She gave birth to you, she left you, we love you, forget about it."

There's no way she would have done that.

I know she wouldn't.

-No way?

-No.

Did she ever try and go back up there, to Glasgow?

We did.

We went up to meet her family.

She was still under the impression that they had contact with him and they'd still brought him up.

She said, you know, "Is he going to be here?

Can I meet him?

Does he want to meet me?"

We was told that he didn't so we stopped looking for him.

She was devastated, to say the least.

Michael's been thinking, "Why didn't she come back for me?"

But we did.

He was always in her heart.

[Nicky] We'll never know exactly what happened, will we?

-No, we won't.

-But now he's come back.

Yeah.

-There he is.

-Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Brother.

I'm looking at him, it's like I've known him all my life.

-I felt I've always known him.

-Mm.

'Cause we've always talked about him.

It's strange.

It's like looking at my mum.

What are you gonna tell him?

How she was and that he was loved and wanted, and she never forgot about him.

[pensive music playing] [Davina] Phyllis and Kevin Haran are looking for their son Sean, who they were forced to give up against their will.

[Phyllis] My God, so young, weren't we?

Yes.

We look old enough to be able to mind him, don't we?

Yeah.

They've spent 45 years trying to find out what happened to him.

And today I get to bring them some answers.

[dog whimpering] [dog barks] -Phyllis?

-Hello.

-Hi!

-Hi, Davina.

-How you doing?

-Fine, thank you.

-Do you want to come in?

-Yes, please.

Oh, hello.

And it's nice to meet you, Kevin.

And you too.

Welcome to Ireland.

Thank you.

So obviously Sean's in your thoughts often.

-Oh, yeah.

-Constantly.

I've always thought about him.

Um, he was our first born, and, uh... he was ours, you know.

I mean, do you think you could have looked after him?

-Course we could have.

-Yeah.

We were expecting to get him back on that day of the courts.

Okay, the judge done what he thought was best.

-[Phyllis] Yes.

-[Davina] Yeah.

You understand.

-We were children.

-Yes, we do.

-But you could have done it.

-Of course.

And leaving that day without Sean must have been heart breaking thinking that you were gonna, you know, "Oh, I'm gonna go get him and take him home with me."

Oh, Phyllis.

I mean, you've been looking for a very, very long time.

And we've found him.

Oh, my God!

-Does he want to meet us?

-Yeah.

-Oh, my God!

-Yes.

Why wouldn't he?

It's been a long time coming, you know.

-Forty-five years.

-Can't believe it.

Where is he, Davina?

Is he in England or where?

-[Kevin] Spain.

-[Phyllis] Is he?

-[Kevin] Yeah.

I knew it.

-Really?

-[Kevin] I hope he's up in the mountains somewhere.

-Is he?

Seriously?

-Your son's name was changed.

-[Kevin] Oh, yes.

-And it's Ruben.

-[couple] Ruben.

Is he married?

-He is married.

-Yeah.

-Spanish.

-He's married to Raquel, she's Spanish.

-Oh, wow!

-And they have a little boy.

He is 11.

-Wow!

-And he's called Alex.

[both] Alex.

[gasps] He did have a very good adoption.

-[Phyllis] Oh, excellent.

Brilliant.

-He was really happy.

Oh, I can't believe it.

-Do you have a photo of him?

-[Davina] I do.

This is your son.

He looks like me!

I think he does.

[Michael] Yeah.

The eyes.

Fine looking man.

As we say in Irish, "Briseann an dúchas trí shúile an chait."

"Nature breaks out through the eyes of a cat," you know.

The genes there.

He's written you a few words.

We've had a translation done.

[Phyllis] "Dear Phyllis and Kevin, every adopted person wants to know about their roots to fill that void we have inside of us.

I had wonderful parents, but I also have to thank you for the genes I've got because they're not bad at all."

[all laughing] "A big hug and I will see you very soon.

Ruben."

Oh, lovely.

[sighs] It's just a weight off my shoulders, it's just... -[Davina] Is it?

-It's like a new life beginning again.

-[Phyllis] We're so happy now.

-[Kevin] I just can't wait to meet him now.

[Phyllis] Yeah.

[contemplative music playing] [Phyllis] I'm meeting my son today.

The excitement is just up to 90 now this morning.

-[laughs] -[Kevin] Now I'm just all over the place.

Apprehension, I suppose.

Um, fear.

I'm constantly thinking on different outcomes, you know.

[Phyllis] I am nervous and excited at the same time.

It's like giving birth again!

[laughing] It feels like it!

Ruben has travelled to Ireland, to the hotel where Phyllis and Kevin used to hang out as love-struck teenagers.

It's here that he'll meet his parents.

[in Spanish] [Ruben] A translator is here to help the family as they reunite.

[Ruben] [Phyllis] He's been lost for so long, I just want to welcome him.

The love is there, in our hearts.

Okay.

-All right?

-Yeah.

[Kevin] At last, our son.

It's been a long time.

Let me see your eyes.

-Family.

-Family.

Okay, Ruben.

Sorry for my English.

Er, I will learn it, okay?

We'll teach you Irish.

Not English.

Irish.

-[speaking Spanish] -What's he saying?

"I'm very nervous."

-We too.

-We too.

-It's been a long time.

-Mucho tiempo.

A long time.

-Long time.

-And we've searched.

-No.

-[Kevin] No, you were never abandoned.

We fought for you.

We went to court for you.

But the judge decided we didn't have enough to offer you.

-Brilliant.

That's what we were hoping for.

-Very good.

We were hoping that you would want to.

We have all the answers.

We have all your answers.

I am...

I am, uh, very fortunate.

Fortunate?

-Happy.

-Yeah, happy, very happy.

-Yes, yes.

-We're all very happy.

We're all very happy.

Good, good, good.

Once we met, all the nerves just went.

It was absolutely brilliant.

Yeah, a weight off our shoulders.

Forty-five years of searching, now we have him in the skin, in the flesh.

This one, this is us here.

[Kevin] In this room.

Forty-six years!

Loads of hair.

Lot of hair.

[all laughing] [Ruben] That's Ryan, your brother.

[Kevin] Good soccer player.

Big man, tall man.

-You and me, short.

-We're short.

[laughing] Hello, Rachel.

-Oh, lovely to meet you.

-Pleased to meet you.

-Me too.

-[Kevin] Hello, Rachel.

Delighted to meet you.

Welcome to the family.

[Phyllis] This baby is no baby anymore, he's a grown man, and really, really proud, really proud, yeah.

[Kevin] It's just like our child, isn't it?

Just seems like we've known him forever.

He's never been away.

Let's hope he likes us as much as we like him.

[Davina] Michael O'Neil believes he was abandoned by his birth mother over 60 years ago but has always hoped to find her.

[Michael] A mother's love should be there forever.

So I hope she's always thought of me.

Tragically, we discovered that Michael's mother Catherine had passed away and we've given him this sad news off camera.

Nothing can change the fact that Michael will never get to meet his birth mother.

But there is some news that I hope will bring him great comfort.

His mother did come back for him, and she did try to find him.

And his sister, who's always known about him, cannot wait to tell him all about her.

-Hi, Michael.

-Hello, Davina.

-Hi.

-How are you?

-Very good.

How you doing?

-Smashing.

Come in?

-Yes, please.

-Come on.

[Davina] Thank you.

Well, thanks for talking to me today because I know that you got the really sad news about your mum.

I am so sorry.

Finding that she'd died was... uh, it... it was very emotional.

What's the biggest question you have?

Did she just leave me and forget me or would she have thought about me regular?

Well, she did think about you.

-Oh... -All the time.

That means a lot.

Yeah.

-She did?

-She did.

-Yeah?

-The reason we know this is because three years after you were born, she had a little girl.

You've got a sister.

Brilliant.

That's fantastic news.

-Called Lorraine.

-Great.

Ah, yeah?

And she told Lorraine about me?

From the get-go.

Lorraine's known about you all her life.

That's great.

That means a lot.

She didn't just forget me, she... yeah.

That means an awful lot to me.

Shall I tell you a bit about her?

Please.

Please.

-Yeah.

-So... Cathy was one of seven siblings.

-Uh-huh.

-Lorraine was told that your mum got pregnant by a married man.

-Uh-huh.

-She was gonna bring up this baby on her own, but she was told, "You leave the baby with us."

Whew!

That's Lorraine's side, that's what she's been told all her life.

But there could be a mixture of the two truths, who knows?

That means that my mother-- my mother didn't leave me.

It upset her, the fact that you, that you weren't with her.

And it's played heavy on her mind, I think, and on her heart.

Did she ever want to come back for me and see me again?

Yes.

Your mother was under the impression that you'd stayed with her family.

And when Lorraine was a bit older, she and your mum all went to Glasgow.

Right.

And got back in touch with the family and said, "What about Michael?"

And she was just told, "Let it go."

So she let it go.

-And she did try to get me back.

-She did.

That means the world.

It means that I was never forgot.

My mother loved me forever.

She wanted to find me as well.

[Davina] Mm.

Do you have any photos?

I do.

So this is your mum here.

[Michael] Ah, so that's me mother, yeah.

Yeah, can definitely see a resemblance there.

Yeah.

I wish she was here to tell me her story.

[Davina] Aww.

[Michael] Mm.

There's Lorraine.

Ah, yes.

So that's me little sister, looks like.

It's strange, to find out after, like, all these years, 60 odd years, 64 years, to find that you've got a little sister.

And just nice to see her.

She'd love to meet you.

I'd love to meet her.

I'd love to.

Yeah.

Be a lot of catching up to do.

-You can see it, can't you?

-[Sue] Yeah.

You can definitely see her, yeah.

[Michael] And there's me sister, Lorraine, she's known about us all her life.

-She can tell us all about me mum.

-Yeah.

-And what she was like.

-[Sue] How lovely, though.

Two weeks later, with the all-clear from the doctors, Lorraine's daughter and granddaughters are getting her ready to meet her brother for the very first time.

[Lorraine] It has been a hard couple of months, but I said Nan was looking down on me and making sure I got through it.

[women sobbing] I'm feeling very emotional, anxious, excited, all of the above.

-He might be a bit scared.

-[Lorraine] Yeah, he might be.

-Take it slow.

-It's going to be a happy day, isn't it?

-We're going to get to meet a new family member!

-Yeah.

Just wanna know everything about how he is and how his life has been.

-Bye!

-[Lorraine] I've always been brought up as an only child, so to have a big brother is just amazing.

And I just want him to like me.

Love you.

Lorraine and Michael are meeting in a hotel close to where their mother lived.

[Michael] To find I've got a sister was amazing, and that she knew all about me all her life.

Thank you very much.

I can't stop telling people about her.

I've said, "I'm gonna meet my sister."

"When was the last time you've seen her?"

I say, "I've never met her."

Says, "I'm 64, and I've never met me sister.

I'm going for the first time to see her."

And they went-- everybody says the same thing-- "Wow!"

Good luck.

-Lorraine.

-Hello, Michael.

-Lorraine.

-Michael!

Oh, Lorraine.

-My little sister.

-I just can't believe it.

-I can see myself in you as well.

-I know.

[Michael] When I walked in, I knew I couldn't give too big a hug, and she went, "Hug me as tight as you want."

Yeah, it was great to just give her that hug, and hold her hand, and look in her eyes and look at her face.

[Lorraine] We didn't wanna let go of each other because it's been such a long time coming.

I'd been told that I was given away.

She missed you every day of her life.

She would have never done that.

You were always part of our lives.

She's always said, "Yeah, my son in Scotland."

-Aye.

-"Michael."

[Michael] It made me feel a lot of love for me mother.

I just wish I could have met her.

What she had to go through.

I was a mistake.

-No, you wasn't a mistake.

-And it caused all the heartbreak.

No, but you wasn't the mistake, was you?

Of course you wasn't the mistake.

-I hope she's up there looking down now and seeing us.

-She will be.

-And saying, "At last."

-Indeed.

-"My family's together."

-I've got a big brother.

I know, and I've got a wee sister, you know.

[Lorraine] I wasn't expecting to feel as connected.

Before we actually got to this point, I just felt that I was becoming emotional and wanted to do it for my mum.

But after meeting him, it's filled a hole in my life as well.

[Michael] She's so lovely, such a lovely girl, and I can't wait to get to know her better.

-Cheers.

-[Lorraine] Cheers.

[gasps] Here they are!

Hello, Sue.

[laughing] -Hello.

-Hello, Sue.

Yeah!

[Michael] Ah, it's been fantastic.

-Cheers.

-Cheers.

[Michael] It was more than I could ever have hoped for.

Me mum, she's living on through Lorraine and through the grandkids.

-Smile!

-Smile!

I've got a new branch to my family.

[family laughing] This is the beginning of a story, not an end.

-That's really good.

-[Michael] Have I got everybody in?

-[Lorraine] Yeah.

-[Sue] Brilliant.

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