Over the last six years, we've reunited more than 200 people with their long-lost relatives.

They've found her!

[both screaming and laughing] Debbie.

Debbie.

You're my son.

This is my birth mummy, Kate.

[Davina] But the reunion is just the beginning.

-I'm your big brother.

-[laughs] How easy is it to build a relationship after a lifetime apart?

The reunion opened a can of worms.

I've imagined this moment my whole life.

[crying] My whole life.

This is the series where we find out what happened next.

For once, I've got somebody who's there for me.

Oh, my darling boy.

This week, two stories of siblings separated by extraordinary circumstances...

This is just unbelievable.

[crying] ...a brother and sister whose reunion has revealed a family secret and launched a whole new search... Where did they go?

Were they still together?

What happened when they grew up?

...and a search for a mother that uncovers difficult truths.

[man] Always be careful what you wish for.

If you ask a question, you're not always gonna be happy with the answer.

[dramatic music ends] Since Long Lost Family began six years ago, we've reunited over 70 siblings.

Two years ago, Ron Williams approached us to help him find his sister Christine, who vanished from his life 65 years earlier.

But when we found Christine, we had no idea it would be the beginning of an extraordinary new search.

When Ron came to us, all he had of his sister were distant memories.

[Ron] In this photograph, Christine is just behind, holding onto me and a rocking horse.

It's really really, happy together.

But then, all of a sudden, Christine wasn't there, and there was only me.

She'd gone.

Before she disappeared from his life, Ron and his younger sister Christine were being brought up by their grandparents in Llanwrst in North Wales.

I just accepted that I, you know, that I lived with my grandparents.

Um, my mum came into-- I saw her just now and again.

Ron's mother, Myra, was divorced and had both Ron and Christine out of wedlock.

Her circumstances meant Myra was the subject of gossip within the local community.

[Ron] It must have been a terrible time for her, really, because of all the rumors and the stigma and everything else that she was going through.

That's why Christine and I were with our grandparents.

Here we are.

The strongest memories Ron had of his sister Christine were in their grandparents' old home.

When the two of us together, Christine and myself, we did have our little unit.

They were good times.

But that's my last, uh, last memory of her.

Then, when Ron was 6 and Christine 4, their grandmother became ill, and everything changed.

And I was sent away to live with my mum in this small valley.

It was in the back of beyond, as we say.

That's where we lived.

The building there.

As the weeks passed, it became clear to Ron that Christine would not be joining him.

I was introduced as Ronnie, and they always used to say, "Oh, are you just an only child?"

And my mum would always say yes.

Uh, but I knew I wasn't.

Ron felt he couldn't ask questions.

And it was only when he was 14 that his mother told him where Christine had gone.

She just said that Christine had been adopted.

She did say that she just couldn't cope at the time with persecution.

And everything that was happening to her.

And, sadly, Christine had to go.

And, uh... "We wanted you."

[cries] I really... miss her.

[Nicky] During our search, we discovered that after leaving their grandparents, Christine had been put in a children's home, and then adopted when she was 4 years old.

Although she'd grown up in the UK, Christine married a man from New Zealand in 1965.

We found her living on Paraparaumu Beach, on the North Island.

Do you remember your brother?

I remember-- I always knew I had a brother.

I remember the two of us running over a bridge.

One of these old sort of stone type bridges.

And I always remember that his name began with an "R".

I've got some photographs that might jog your memory.

This is a photograph of the two of you playing on a rocking horse.

[Christine] So, that's me?

-You're the little one.

-The little one here?

You're the little one, yeah.

[Nicky] Your birth mother.

Myra's on the left.

Her name was Myra.

Ah.

Oh... [cries] -Sorry.

-No, don't worry.

[Nicky] Got another photograph here.

Your brother.

Ah, look.

Oh, that's wonderful.

He looks lovely.

Oh, I can't wait to meet him.

[laughs] [Davina] Back in Wales, I was able to tell Ron that we'd found his sister, Christine.

So, this is such a big thing for you, looking for your sister.

Yeah.

[coughs] Yeah, it is.

Thinking back through what's happened to both of us, she went one way.

Uh, I went another way.

And, uh, 'cause I'm getting older now, I just thought I'm missing-- I've missed all... all those years.

[crying] Well, Ron, we've found her.

Oh!

[crying] Oh...

Sorry.

-Is she still alive?

-She's still alive.

[crying] -I'm sorry.

-Don't apologize.

Oh, grief.

[sighs] She's in New Zealand.

Did she know she had a brother?

Yes, she does.

What she remembers about you is just snippets.

She knew your name began with an "R", and she had one memory of you running across a stone bridge?

Llanwrst, yes.

It's the only one there.

-[Davina] Oh, there's only one.

-Yeah.

The stone bridge, yes.

Yeah.

[Davina] Do you want to see a picture of her?

There's your sister.

[Ron] She's got the same eyes as me.

[Davina] Yes, she looks very like you, I think.

Oh, dear me.

Absolutely fantastic.

I can't stop looking at her.

[laughs] [sentimental music playing] After 65 years apart, Christine made the 10,000-mile journey to the UK to be reunited with her brother beside the stone bridge in Llanwrst.

[Ron crying] [Christine] Oh.

-Lovely to see you.

-You too.

Thank you for coming over.

It was just wonderful.

And after all these years.

It's a very long time.

Would you like a cup of tea then?

Oh, alright.

[laughs] [Ron] Oh, dear me.

Since they met in 2015, Ron and Christine have been making up for lost time.

They speak every week, and Christine's been back to Wales for a second visit to stay with her new brother.

Now, for the first time, Ron's traveled halfway round the world to see Christine and meet her family in New Zealand.

[Ron] I do feel it's like a dream.

Ever since I've met Christine I've been wondering, "Is this real?

", and of course it is.

[laughs] Which one's she now?

She's the, um, on the-- with the long hair.

A brother.

[laughs] Um, oh, it's just wonderful.

Yeah, it's just huge.

Completely changed my life.

It's as if we've been able to pick up without that gap in between.

Since they started spending time together, Christine has had the chance to find out more about their mother, Myra.

[Christine] Um...

Anyway, that's my mum's old passport.

-Uh.. -Oh, it was lovely.

-[Ron] What year was that?

-That was taken '72.

But sharing memories of their family has also raised questions for Ron and Christine.

Ron has been haunted by the idea that their mother may have had two more children.

My mum always used to say, "You mustn't forget," you know, that we've got Christine and Lynne and Wayne," but I never questioned-- I never asked.

Although Ron has no memory of them, Christine also has a recollection of something her adoptive mother said which suggests that this might be true.

Mother did tell me that I had a little sister who was obviously younger than me... [Ron] Yeah.

...and who must have been in the home with me.

Apparently, we were quite close, and she was sorry that she couldn't adopt both of us, just to try and keep us together.

Yeah.

And Christine has remembered another clue which might help.

[Christine] So, when I was adopted, they gave me a baby doll, and they said, "What are you going to call it?"

And I said immediately, you know, "Eleuned."

So, the doll was Ilynnette.

The name came out straight away without any hesitation.

In Wales, the name Eleuned is often abbreviated to Lynne, the same name Ron had heard when he was growing up.

I've no physical memories of them, but when Christine mentioned she knew she had a sister, then I realized, you know, I haven't been dreaming.

Now that they've realized they do have another brother and sister, Ron and Christine are desperate to find them.

But with so little information to go on, this was going to be a difficult search.

Ron and I have had an incredible reunion, and it would just be wonderful to have the same sort of reunion with Wayne and Lynne as well.

[Davina] But before we start our search for Ron and Christine's siblings... Our next story was a first for Long Lost Family.

Cliff Jardine came to us desperate to find his birth mother, and his search led to one of the most astonishing discoveries we've ever made.

But how do you cope when your search doesn't turn out as you'd hoped?

56-year-old taxi driver Cliff lives in North Devon, not far from his daughter and grandson.

Hello, little man.

You get your eyes from your mum, but your looks from your grandad.

Cliff was brought up by a couple called Jean and Ron, but his childhood wasn't a happy one.

My parents were... cold is the only way I can describe them.

They weren't emotional.

They never expressed emotion.

Um... you never heard the word "love" much in the house.

And when Cliff was just 8, his relationship with his parents fell apart.

Had a-- a row, I don't know what about, and I got sent up to my room by my mother.

She came through the door and threw an envelope at me and told me, "You're not our bastard son anyway."

And then shut the door.

My thoughts were, "What's this?

I don't understand.

What is this?"

It was a letter revealing that Cliff was adopted.

It had been written to him as a baby in 1960 by his birth mother.

"I didn't want you to be brought up in an unhappy home.

So, I gave you to Jean and Ron, because I knew they would love you.

And I love you too.

God bless you and send you a happy life.

Your mother.

I was upset.

I suppose I felt alone in the world.

And so, you know, it changed-- somehow, it changed my personality and turned me into a very angry young man.

Later on in my teens, I was always in trouble with police.

Fighting and petty crimes.

And so, I went to go home, and I was told, "No you're not coming back here.

You're too much trouble."

At the age of 17, Cliff was left unemployed and homeless.

I was in a really desolate place, um, you know, living in squats and moving about.

But that letter from my real mother came with me everywhere.

I wanted to know that I'm part of a family, and so I started looking for her.

[Nicky] All Cliff knew about his mum was the fact that she'd worked in Singapore, and her name, which we can't disclose for legal reasons.

We started our search in the UK, but we drew a blank.

So, we turned our attention to Singapore.

After extensive searches there, we also hit a brick wall.

We were ready to tell Cliff that we'd have to give up on his case.

[Davina] But then, a woman from Portsmouth came to us with a story that stopped us in our tracks.

[child] Hello, Nanny!

Hello.

Come in.

52-year-old grandmother Sue Ward has devoted her life to raising her family.

[Sue's son] Have you got Mr. Chalk?

No, I haven't...

But the identity of her own mother had remained a mystery.

Sue had been adopted in Singapore, and despite her happy childhood, she still wondered about her birth mother.

I started to sort of fantasize about this person.

Did she still live in Singapore?

Has she got any other kids?

[crying] Has she had a good life?

Does she regret anything?

I need to know.

Sue's adoption papers from Singapore contain very few clues about her mother.

But a link to Singapore was striking.

It was the same place where Cliff Jardine's search had led us.

And the woman that Sue was looking for had the same name as Cliff's birth mother.

Could Cliff and Sue be siblings?

To find out, we decided to test their DNA.

When Cliff Jardine and Sue Ward came to us separately, each searching for a birth mother with the same name and a connection to Singapore, we suspected they could be siblings.

To find out, we took samples of their DNA to test for a match, and I went to get the results.

-[Nicky] Right.

-That's Cliff.

-That's Sue.

-Okay.

So, you can see we've got two components here and one there, and exactly the same are seen in Cliff's profile.

Two here and that one there.

Right, so, are they brother and sister?

They are half-siblings.

Whoo!

[dramatic music note] [Davina] This had never happened before-- two people coming to us separately, and we had proved they were related.

I went to tell Cliff the extraordinary news.

So, I'm afraid, at the moment, we haven't as yet been able to trace your mother, but we are still looking.

Yeah.

But I did want to come, because I've got something to tell you.

Um, we had another person contact us who was looking for their mother with the same name, uh, in Singapore... Oh.

...at the same time as you, looking for potentially the same person.

So, we were asking, "Is this a sibling?"

Right.

Yeah, yeah.

So, we took the DNA sample that you gave us.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And it is your half-sister.

No.

Half-sister?

-Yeah.

-Really?

And where... where is she?

She's in Portsmouth, [laughs] Oh, really?

-She's called Sue.

-Right.

And she's three and a half years younger than you.

-Oh, my God.

-Yeah.

-Oh.

-[laughs] My God.

[laughs] This has never happened before.

Just amazing.

[laughs] Do you want to see a picture?

Yeah.

[laughs] [Davina] Here's your sister.

[Ron] Oh, wow.

[laughs] Wasn't expecting this.

[exhales sharply] Hi.

Sister Sue.

[laughs] [Nicky] It was time to tell Sue the amazing news, that she had a half-brother, Cliff.

Well, it's an unusual situation, but so far, we haven't been able to trace your birth mother.

It's doesn't really surprise me.

[crying] But I have got some news for you.

Another person came to us searching for a birth mother with the same name.

-Oh.

How spooky.

-Yeah.

So, we used the DNA sample that you gave us to test against the DNA of this person.

And we've found there is a match.

That you have a half-brother on your mother's side.

Cliff.

[crying] Wow.

Uh... Wow.

[crying] This is just unbelievable.

[crying] That's got to be one in a million.

[Nicky] That's your brother.

Oh.

[laughs] Oh.

That's so cool.

It's so cool.

You don't know how important this is for me.

[crying] [sentimental music playing] A few days later, Cliff and Sue met in a restaurant on the South Bank of the Thames.

[exhales] Hello.

[laughs] Hi.

-You're my sister.

-[laughs] Yes.

-[Cliff] Sit yourself down.

-Thank you.

Oh.

I'm your bigger brother.

[laughs] I've always wanted a big brother.

I just never thought I'd ever feel like this.

Me too.

Me too, I've, uh, lived a life without family and... 50-odd years, I've been waiting for this.

[laughs] [Cliff] Welcome home.

But Cliff and Sue's story didn't end there.

Just two weeks after being reunited, their mother was found.

However to avoid upsetting her family, she didn't want any contact with them.

We told Cliff and Sue this difficult news off camera.

Sue's found this really painful and doesn't want to talk about it on camera.

But Cliff has very kindly agreed to tell me what it feels like to look for someone only to discover that they don't want to be found.

[doorbell ringing] -Hello.

-Hi there, how are you?

-Good, thank you, yourself?

-[Davina] Lovely to see you.

Ah.

-Had a good journey?

-Yeah, yeah.

-It's been good, it's been good.

-Come in.

Thank you.

So, I'm so sorry that your birth mother has decided not to have any contact with you, but how have you been doing?

Yeah, that was pretty difficult to cope with.

It was, uh, a good few weeks of very, very mixed up emotions.

I was sort of-- didn't quite understand what was going on, -had anger.

-Hmm.

Um, and sadness, obviously, 'cause, you know, I've spent 33 years of my life looking for her.

It took weeks to actually deal with it.

I mean that's the thing about entering into this journey of looking for somebody.

It is really important that people do prepare themselves.

Oh, absolutely.

That it doesn't always end happy.

When you go into this, obviously you get advised, you know, carefully, you know, we might not find her, this that and the other.

And you try to think that, what if she doesn't want to know?

But you reject that in your own brain... -Yes.

-...because you think, "How could she not want to know?"

-I know.

-You know, and it's just that, that's where the confusion and the anger sets in.

You can't prepare yourself for rejection, 'cause your brain doesn't compute that and doesn't want it to happen.

But, I mean, I'll never truly cope with it, and I'll still go back once every so often, I'll read the letter from her that she left me when I was born, and I'll cry.

But, I mean, I suppose, Cliff, if you hadn't started this journey, you wouldn't have met Sue.

-Precisely.

-That would never have happened.

Just the fact that I've got a sister, and I love her to bits, so... Yeah, it was-- if at the end of the day nothing else ever happened, it was worth that, you know, that feeling.

[Davina laughs] [Cliff] Thank you.

Although coming to terms with the decision their birth mother made has been difficult for both of them, it's now been nearly 18 months since Cliff and Sue were reunited, and they've become an essential part of each other's lives.

Cliff is on one of his regular visits to Portsmouth to see Sue.

It's so comfortable, it's amazing.

Yeah, yeah.

That's it.

You would just sort of have this image in your head of how it's gonna be.

Yeah.

And then.. And it was nothing like it.

No, it just clicked instantly, and... -Yeah.

-Bang.

Just great.

[Sue] Clearly, the relationship with our mum wasn't meant to be, for whatever reason, and I respect that, that's you know, it's absolutely everybody's choice.

But, you know, I genuinely feel like I am the luckiest person in the world, and everybody says, you know, "Well, yeah, but," you know, "You didn't get to have the ultimate happy ending."

But, actually, I did.

Because I always wanted a brother.

This relationship is far more important to me than finding my mum, if I'm honest.

Sue, she's flamboyantly lovely.

[laughs] She's a woman with a very generous heart and, uh, a very loving nature.

It's been brilliant.

[Sue] I do love Cliff, even though it sounds a little bit unreal, because it's a year and a half.

And I think he's just fantastic.

Despite having no idea of each other's existence until a year and a half ago, the siblings now can't imagine life without each other.

I was thinking about, maybe getting a photo, um, album and starting to put some in.

Actually, they're really nice memories to have.

[Cliff] I was 18.

[laughs] It's the only shot I've got of us two next to each other that.

[Sue] It doesn't matter what's happened in the past.

We're creating our own history and our own memories together now.

Well, roll on the summer when we're out with the bikes.

We'll have lots of photo opportunities then.

As long as I've still got my crash helmet on, we'll be fine.

[laughs] [general chatter, child screams] Today Cliff has brought his daughter Shana and grandson Carter to join Sue's family on the beach.

Although Cliff is delighted to have a new extended family, it hasn't been straightforward.

[Cliff] It's been a transition mentally.

Family, to me, was, uh, cold, unloving, uncaring, um, and just something you had to have because you were born and parents brought you up.

But you know, after you've lived your life without a family, to get one and discover the joys of it, and, yeah there can be love there and, uh, people caring about each other-- is something I'm still getting used to.

[Sue] I know that we've got hurdles to cross.

He's had a really rough life and...

I think that makes you build a wall around yourself to protect yourself.

And I think being able to be with us as a family together will give him some of what he's missed.

Brother and sister are now planning their future together.

Yeah, well we've got years.

We've got years.

Yeah.

Years to catch up on and years to catch up in.

[Sue] And we've got lots of adventures to go on together, and I can't wait.

You can't ask for better than that, can you really?

Just over a year ago, we reunited siblings Ron and Christine after 65 years apart.

But since they've spent time together, they've unearthed another mystery.

Their mum had two more children, but all they know about them is that their names were Lynne and Wayne.

Where did they go?

Were they still together?

You know, what-- what happened when they grew up?

[Sue] Do they have any families?

What have they done with their lives?

What are they doing now?

What do they know about Ron and myself?

There wasn't really anything that I could sort of start my search with.

As Ron and Christine only had scraps of memories to go on, we knew this was going to be a really tough search.

We started by focusing on the sibling that Christine was told about, her sister, possibly Lynne or Eleuned .

But our search for somebody born in North Wales of the right name and age drew a blank.

Then we had an unexpected breakthrough.

A distant relative came forward with some vital new information.

He confirmed that Myra had had two more children with her second husband, who she'd married while Ron and Christine were living with their grandparents, but the marriage broke down soon after the children were born.

Their names were John Wayne Williams and Noreen Eleuned Williams.

Eleuned and Wayne were their middle names.

Finally, we were on their trail.

Myra and her second husband divorced soon after John and Noreen were born, and Myra left the children.

The relative tipped us off that both John and Noreen had emigrated to the other side of the world.

Incredibly, we found John living on New Zealand's North Island, the very place that Christine had moved to.

Noreen agreed to travel from her home in Australia to meet me at John's house in New Zealand.

Ron and Christine spent more than 60 years apart, knowing there were people missing from their lives.

But what about John and Noreen?

Who did they grow up with, and what do they know about their mother's side of the family?

I'm meeting the siblings at John's house in Tauranga, on New Zealand's North Island.

[setting parking brake] [doorbell rings] -Hello.

-John.

-Yeah.

-Nicky Campbell.

Pleased to meet you.

It's wonderful to meet you.

Noreen.

-Noreen.

-Lovely to meet you.

-Would you like to come in?

-I would love to come in.

Thank you.

So, how did you feel when you heard the news that your brother and your sister were desperate to find you?

Yeah, I find it really, like, mind-blowing.

Did you know they existed?

No.

Had no idea they existed.

None whatsoever?

Absolutely not.

So, what was your childhood like, and who did you actually grow up with?

I went to a children's home, and my auntie came and got me.

She already had my brother with her four children, and they brought us up as their own, didn't they?

Until we were 6.

I was 6.

What happened when you were 6 then?

Then we were-- went off to London.

To live with...?

[Noreen] Uh, my father.

So, did your father ever mention your mother, Myra?

I didn't even know my mother's name.

I never thought about my mother until really after my own family was born, and realized, you know, how nice it would have been to have had a mother.

We don't know anything.

So, your mother, Myra, when she married your father, she already had two "illegitimate" children, Christine and Ron, from a previous relationship.

Then, of course, having you two, and then, she divorced your father, you can imagine the curtain twitching that was going on... [Lynne laughs] ...and the gossiping.

And I think she thought that you needed to go elsewhere to give you the best possible life.

I didn't know the circumstances.

And I can't believe that a woman could willingly give up her children.

So, you went to live with your father.

Was that a happy time or not?

They were very unhappy times, and we lost our childhood.

Were you materially looked after?

Were you well fed?

-Were you... -[scoffs] We were well fed 'cause we picked food up in the street.

-What?

-We had this this big pact.

John and I would walk down the street.

We'd collect anything we can find-- apple cores, bread for the birds.

We'd share it down the end of the street.

You know, and we'd have to, um-- you'd go out, they'd have the door locked, and you don't come back 'til it's dark.

'Cause he would come home drunk, of course.

-Your father, yeah.

-Yes, came home drunk.

We slept together 'til we was ten in a single bed, and we'd hold the... We learnt to hold the sheets really, really tight so that the beatings were not as hard, was they?

Well... You know I can't explain how bad it was.

I can't talk about it without being emotional.

The whole thing is a-- was a nightmare.

I went to-- we went boarding school at 10.

Somewhere along the line, the authorities must have been in touch, and, uh, it was a paying place, but they had so many places that, um, were free.

How did boarding school change your lives?

For once that we-- we were no longer afraid.

Just before Christine was given up for adoption, she was in a children's home for a while.

I think she's four years older than you.

And you were in the children's home as well.

Yes.

Christine has memories of you in the children's home, and when Christine was-- her adoptive mother gave her a dolly, she wanted to call the dolly Eleuned.

And that was you.

It's really sad, isn't it?

I am getting emotional now.

It's beautiful.

Since Christine and Ron were reunited, they've become a real team, and I get the sense that you two are a real team.

Oh, we... [laughs] It's always been him and I against the world.

We've always been like it, since we were young kids.

We've stuck together.

Do you want to see a photograph of Christine and Ron?

-[Christine] Yeah.

-[laughs] Yeah.

Oh, but definite.

[John] Ah.

That's-- that's lovely.

Isn't it?

Hasn't he got a nice smile?

[John] Yeah.

Oh, yes.

That's brilliant.

[Noreen] Yeah, I'm looking forward to meeting you two.

When you look at a picture someone gives you and says "They're your-- your brother and sister--" Quite special.

[Davina] Ever since Ron and Christine were reunited with each other a year ago, they've been searching together for their younger siblings.

They've now been told that John and Noreen have been found, and I've come to New Zealand, where Ron's staying with Christine, to find out what this means to them both.

I also have to give them the difficult news about John and Noreen's childhood.

[doorbell ringing] -[Davina] Hi!

How are you?

-Hello, lovely to see you.

It's so lovely to see you.

Ron!

-Are you okay?

-Oh... how are you?

Yeah, good, good.

Gosh this is such a treat.

Well, it's been crazy, hasn't it, this journey, because there's two more siblings.

[laughs] Wonderful.

Just incredible.

One to four.

I can't believe it.

-[Davina] Hmm.

-Really can't believe it.

And Nicky's met them.

John lives just outside of Auckland, and, um, Noreen lives just outside of Sydney, in the Blue Mountains.

-Oh.

-Yeah.

You knew, didn't you, that Noreen had ended up in the same home... -Yes.

-...as you.

Yes.

At that time, John was sent away to live with an aunt.

But then they both went together to live with the dad and their step mum, and I know that this is going to be hard for you to hear because, obviously, you know, they're your siblings and it's not nice to hear.

But, they did have a troubled upbringing.

-It wasn't easy.

-Ah, okay.

Oh.

John and Noreen lived in total poverty, and they shared a single bed and the dad was an angry man.

But they had each other.

And from that, I think, they have just an incredible bond.

[Christine] Hmm.

[Davina] It's a terrible story, isn't it?

Uh, sad.

I'm really hoping that seeing these guys and bringing your family back together can be a new beginning, really.

I've got a picture.

-Oh, have you?

-Yeah.

-You ready?

-Yes.

Oh.

[crying] Looks like you when you were little.

Oh, Christine.

[crying] [Christine] It's lovely that they've sort of, got each other.

And now they've got us too.

[laughs] Yeah.

It's absolutely fantastic.

We've got to go and see them now.

After being reunited with each other a year ago, today, Ron and Christine are going to meet their two new siblings, John and Noreen, and complete their family.

Well, I'm hoping that the bond that Christine and I have managed to-- to get over this last year.

I'm hoping that the same thing will happen with John and Noreen.

The brothers and sisters are meeting at a wildlife sanctuary in Wellington, in New Zealand's North Island.

[Noreen] I'm hoping to find out things about our mother.

I'd like to know if she ever ended up happy.

After, you know, all these years, uh, somebody's got information.

Finally, there's answers.

[Ron] That's it.

[Christine] I think our mother would be just over the moon and really happy that we were going to get to meet all together again.

[Ron] Yes, well, this is it now.

[Christine] Yes.

[dramatic music note] [Noreen] I'm going for Christine.

-I'm going to give you a hug.

-[Christine] Alright.

[laughing] -[Noreen] Ah, look at you.

-[crying] How gorgeous is this?

[muffled voice] -Really good to see you.

-It's good to see you too.

[exhaling heavily] [low voices] [Noreen laughs] Oh, that's beautiful, it's beautiful.

Please don't ever, ever lose that.

Aw, this is gorgeous.

Oh, we're gonna have so much to catch up with, eh?

Shall we all go for a sit down?

-[John] Perfect.

-Okay.

Let's go.

[all laugh] [Noreen] We've been waiting and waiting, and this is just fabulous, isn't it?

I am so happy to have met you both.

This has been like, "Oh, hurry up and let it happen."

I've got a photograph of, uh, of mum.

-[Noreen] We want to see it.

-Okay.

No, I'm blown away.

I'm blown away.

[Noreen] The face is uncanny.

I know her.

-You look like her.

-I think, yeah.

-You know... -Yeah.

I'm so thrilled as I sit here, that I've seen you both in the flesh, and we are brother and sister.

Brother and brother.

And no one can take that off us now.

[Ron crying] No you're right.

-No one can do that.

-[crying] If mum, my mother could see us all together now, uh, she would be absolutely ecstatic.

[Noreen] We're family.

I don't know where it's going, how it's gonna go, but we're family.

[Christine] They're lovely.

Very easy to get on with and just to sort of be able to connect in the same way that Ron and I did a year ago.

Oh, it was amazing.

It's unreal, isn't it?

We finally got to meet them.

I think it's so good, and that hug, it was just, it was like, you know, "Don't let me go."

[John] It's just like meeting them, and I hadn't seen them for a couple of years.

It doesn't feel like I've never met them.

It wouldn't have all happened without you, starting it all off.

And we got a sister and a brother.

We have.

[laughter] Next time on Long Lost Family: What Happened Next... we catch up with three people whose lives have been changed in ways they could never have expected.

[man] Since we've met Andrew, I think there's maybe a little bit more lightness in our step.

[woman] She's still got to tell me things that I'm not prepared to hear at the moment.

He never really felt right... Aah.

...in, um, his man's body, and so made the transition, Debbie.

-I've got a sister?

-You've got a sister.

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