
Episode 3
Season 12 Episode 3 | 44m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode features two people searching for their missing birth mothers.
A woman taken to Morocco as a toddler against her mother's will, and a man given up as a baby because of the color of his skin search for their birth mothers.
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Episode 3
Season 12 Episode 3 | 44m 34sVideo has Closed Captions
A woman taken to Morocco as a toddler against her mother's will, and a man given up as a baby because of the color of his skin search for their birth mothers.
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I hope you can find him.
[man] Why did she let me go?
I want to know.
I need to know.
My brother was my whole world.
Where is he?
[Davina] There are many reasons why people across Britain are searching for missing family.
I found out... all my life is fake.
[man] What would that be like, if you never saw your child again?
Some have unsolved mysteries.
Behind every door, there's a story.
Behind that door's mine.
Others have difficult questions.
So, imagine the moment when the answer you need is just around the corner.
[Davina] I'm gonna be there in about 20 minutes.
-And the plot thickens.
-I know.
[Nicky] In this series, we uncover unexpected truths... -So this was deception?
-Yep, it was.
Mum was having an affair with somebody, and he wasn't Black.
...find people that no one else could trace... We have found your brother.
No way!
[laughs] ...and reunite families after a lifetime apart.
Just shows you that miracles still happen in this day and age.
[Davina] Over the years, we've met many women who got pregnant as teenagers and gave up their babies to be raised by someone else.
But it's surprisingly rare for that someone else to be the child's biological father.
[man] My dad brought me up.
I've never had any contact at all with my birth mother.
[film reel running] Why did she let me go?
Has she ever had feelings for me?
I want to know.
I need to know.
[keyboard clicking] [Davina] 52-year-old father of three Roy Sibblies has been a truck driver for nearly 20 years.
[Roy] I have always worked hard to be able to provide a good, comfortable life for my family.
-[Roy] Hi, honey.
-Hiya.
-Want a brew?
-I'd love one, please.
Yeah.
The kids have left home, but it's a nice, close-knit family.
[film reel running] Roy was brought up by his Jamaican birth father, Eccleston, and Eccleston's wife, Joan.
He grew up believing Joan to be his mother.
[Roy] I haven't seen any of these for well over 40 years.
I feel a nice, warm fuzz running through my body when I think of my mum and dad and my childhood years.
[laughs] Those red shorts!
How lovely.
I've always been close to my dad, and my mum gave me all the love and support that mothers do.
I miss her.
Through my childhood, I never had any reason to think or feel that, "Hang on a sec, this family's not right."
I had no inkling anything was out of the ordinary.
But all that would change at 18, when Roy needed his birth certificate to enlist in the Royal Navy, and asked his father, Eccleston, about the names on it.
My dad said, "Now is probably as good a time as any to tell you that your mum, Joan, isn't actually your mum."
-Hello, son.
-Dad, you okay?
-All right?
-Yeah, not so bad.
-[Eccleston] Give me a hug.
-Nice to see you.
Eccleston revealed that Roy's birth mother was a woman called Janet who he'd been in a relationship with as a young man.
She was such a nice person.
She told me that she was in the family way.
So, I said, "Well, I've got to marry you."
She said, "No, I don't think my parents would like it."
So, we haven't seen each other since then.
Why do you think her parents wouldn't like it?
Because of my color, I expect.
[Roy] I was born in '69, so there was quite a lot of racism going on at the time.
Her parents said she couldn't keep me, saying, "No, we don't want a Black man's baby in this family."
To give a baby up because of the color of their skin, that cuts really, really deep to the core.
And it's important for me to know whether she regrets her decision.
So, why did you say that you're gonna have me?
I knew you did belong to me.
And I know, well, if I let somebody else have you, I might not see you.
So, I went to the hospital after you were born and take you.
After she hand you over, that's it, I didn't hear from her ever again.
Do you have any ill feelings towards Janet -for not wanting me?
-No.
No.
I really respect her, and I love her for it.
'Cause if she didn't give me a son, I wouldn't have nobody.
No.
She gave me the best prize which anybody could have.
-Aw, that's so sweet.
-[laughs] I wish I could find her, really.
Here's hoping.
Following the death of Joan, the mum who raised him, Roy tried to find his birth mother but without success, leaving him with unanswered questions.
[Roy] I wonder if my mum is alive?
Do I have any other brothers or sisters?
Because there's potentially a whole new family out there.
I can feel a hole in my heart growing because there is somebody that should be there.
And only time will tell if, um-- if she wants to fill that hole.
[intriguing music playing] I need to find out if there's a death record in that name.
[Nicky] We took up the search for Janet and discovered her mother's death certificate.
On it, Janet was listed as the next of kin, with the married name of Finch and an address in West Sussex.
Unfortunately, these clues led us to a second death record, and we discovered the tragic news that Janet had also died.
But the search didn't end there.
[keyboard clicking] Janet had two younger children, a girl and a boy-- Jo and Dan-- who live close to each other on the South Coast.
So, we reached out to them, and they agreed to meet me.
Ever since he found out about his birth mother, Janet, Roy's need to know what happened to her and why she disappeared from his life 50 years ago has just grown stronger and stronger.
Sadly, Janet will never get a chance to explain, but maybe her younger children, Dan and Jo, can shed some light.
Did she ever tell them about Roy?
Did she think about him?
And did she regret not being a part of his life?
-Hi, Jo.
-Hi, Nicky.
Hi.
Come in.
-How are you doing?
-I'm good, thank you.
You?
[Nicky] I'm really well.
Thanks very much for meeting me.
Sorry to hear about your mum.
Thank you.
I wonder what she would think of-- of this.
She'd be over the moon.
[Dan] Yeah, she would have been thrilled.
'Cause, although we-- we kind of knew of Roy's existence, never in a million years did we think we'd get the opportunity to meet him.
How did you find out about his existence?
[Jo] Mum had a conversation with me that she'd had a baby when she was 19, but she wasn't able to keep him.
And then, on Roy's birthday every year, she always used to say, "Happy birthday.
I wonder what he's doing."
And when people said, "How many children have you got?"
And she said, "Three."
[laughs] So, yeah.
Mum always got so upset when she spoke about him, because it was her biggest regret that she wasn't able to keep him.
[Nicky] Did she ever explain to you why Roy wasn't a part of her life, and she wasn't a part of Roy's life?
[Jo] 1969 was a very different time.
Roy's dad was a Black man, and at the time, it was something that was taboo.
But, specifically, it was pressure from her parents.
[Jo] Oh, yes.
[Dan] Their prejudice came into play, and she was only 19 when all this happened.
If you're told that you can't be with the person you want to be with, and you can't keep the child that you would otherwise have kept, I mean, that's got to sit with you.
I know how much it would have meant to Mum to meet Roy, and I think it's really important that he should know that she cared deeply for him, even though she wasn't there to do it in person.
I think that's really-- you know, really important.
[Jo] Mum said she tried to find him, and I am now the eldest one in our family, and I know there won't be a shared history... but it will just be nice to have that connection and to get to know him and to tell him that he was loved.
Even if he wasn't part of our family physically, she thought about him a lot.
-Is he happy?
-[Nicky] He is.
He's had a really lovely life and a really happy childhood.
[Jo] That's what she wanted.
[Nicky] He obviously lived with his father, who he adores, Eccleston, and also Eccleston's wife, who he thought was his mother.
It was a lovely, loving family.
I'm so pleased to hear it.
Then when he was joining the Navy and he saw his birth certificate, and he said to his dad, "What's that, then?"
His dad said, "That is the name of your birth mother."
That's incredible, that is.
That must have been a huge shock for him, though.
-Yeah.
-[Jo] Have you got a photograph?
Yeah, I do.
[Dan] Hmm.
[Dan] Crazy.
My brother.
[laughs] He's got a very kind face.
[Jo] He looks like you.
Yeah.
Yeah, and we both carry Mum's eyes.
Wow!
I've got a photograph of Roy and Eccleston.
Oh.
They look alike as well, don't they?
They look close.
[Jo] Love the way he's looking at him.
They both look like really nice men.
I'd love to meet-- Well, I'd love to meet both of them.
I really can't wait.
[Davina] However difficult it is to hear, the truth has transformative power.
Our next searcher spent 30 years of her life completely unaware that she'd been taken abroad as a baby-- against her mother's will.
[woman] I found out the truth-- my father and my mum, it's not my real family.
All my life is fake.
[keyboard clicking] [Middle Eastern music playing] [speaking Arabic] [Davina] 50-year-old Sanae now lives in the UK but grew up in Morocco.
Ma'a salama.
[Sanae] I got hard life in Morocco.
And my parents is very strict, and especially my father.
If you do something wrong, he's gonna beat you up.
Sanae was forced to leave school at 11 years old and worked at home.
[Sanae] I have to stay in the home doing cleaning or washing or sewing clothes.
And things only got worse when she was married to a man over 20 years her senior at the age of just 19.
It's an arranged marriage.
He's very, very controlling.
He's like king, and I'm his slave.
Sanae had four children with her husband.
But her life changed completely when she was 30 and a distant family member revealed a devastating secret.
He told me my parents is not my real family.
Sanae discovered that the people who'd brought her up were, in fact, her paternal aunt and uncle.
Her real father had given her to them to raise-- and that wasn't all.
He's told me I'm half English, and my mum, she's British.
"Your father has take you away from your mum when you are 18 months."
I feel like my heart is broken.
You feel all your life is a lie.
Sanae went to the British Embassy in Rabat.
Staff there were able to help her trace her British birth certificate.
This is the birth certificate.
It's first time in my life I know the name of my birth mother.
The name is Hazel, and the family name is Chick.
From my heart, I wish to meet her one time in my life.
See her or hug her.
Because it's my mum.
[keyboard clicking] Despite not speaking a word of English, Sanae fought to escape her abusive marriage and move to the UK as a British citizen with her four children.
[Sanae] Aw, thank you, Lorna.
Thank you.
That's lovely.
She's now happily remarried and has another son.
[Sanae] This new life has changed everything.
I'm safe.
I come back to my home.
Thank you.
[Lorna] I'm really proud of Mum.
It's a really brave and incredible thing that she's done bringing us here, building this life for us, for herself.
She built a better life for us and her.
Right, so you get three cards...
But after 20 years in the UK, Sanae knows there's someone else who should be part of her family.
She's been searching for her mother ever since she came into England.
She's never had someone to be there for her, the same way you have your mother to be there for you.
I think she feels like there's a piece of her missing.
I want to find her, because she's my mum, and she's my heart as well.
Because she's everything for me.
[Nicky] This was a very unusual case.
We knew Sanae had been born Serena Joan in the West Midlands, so we started by trying to understand her parents' circumstances at the time.
First, we found a marriage certificate for Sanae's Moroccan father and her British mother, Hazel Chick, from Birmingham, and also, records of their subsequent divorce.
Sanae's father had custody, and when he took her abroad, it would have made it even harder for her mother to see her.
We've never had a case like this before, when a child has actually just been taken.
We haven't.
Sanae's father took her to Morocco, and in the 1970s, the UK and Morocco didn't have a legal arrangement.
So, we had no system whereby Hazel, Sanae's mother, could get her back.
But now, as an adult, Sanae has come looking for her mother.
Yes, that's right.
We knew Hazel had been living in the Birmingham area when Sanae was born, so we focused our efforts there, and soon found wider family members who were able to put us in touch.
[keyboard clicking] We contacted Hazel, and she agreed to speak to me.
Growing up, Sanae's whole life was a lie, and only her real mother, Hazel, knows the truth about what happened.
So, how did she cope with losing contact?
And did Hazel ever dream that she would see Sanae again?
Hazel has two other younger children, and she suffers from Parkinson's disease.
-Hazel, hi.
-Hi.
-Nice to see you.
-Lovely to see you.
I'm Nicky.
Thank you, uh-- thank you very much for talking to me.
How does it feel to know that your daughter has been searching for you?
I'm over the moon.
It's something that I've always wanted and have always wished for, is to actually see my daughter before I pass on, 'cause I have a degenerative disease that's just going to eventually see me off.
So, what happened, and why was she taken away?
Her dad said he was going to Morocco to see his family, and is taking Serena with him so his family over there can meet her.
And he came back four weeks without her.
And he explained to me that his sister out there can't have children, and she was going to bring her up.
And he said to me that she wasn't coming back.
That must have been devastating.
Well, it was.
I cried.
I cried every night.
For months and months and months, I just cried and cried every night.
She was my first child.
She's the-- she's the apple of my eye.
So, how long was Sanae with you?
Approximately 18 months.
There's a photo here.
That's what she looked like the last time I saw her.
[Nicky] And that's just before she was taken away?
[Hazel] Yeah.
Yeah.
I just wished in those days there were people and organizations -that can help you.
-Yes.
Not then.
Not then in the early '70s.
There was no way you could get them back.
So, your existence was erased from her life, which is awful.
Yeah.
I was only 20 at the time.
The next thing I knew was, nine years later, I had that photo given to me.
[Nicky] What was it like when you were given this photo?
-How did you feel?
-[Hazel] I burst into tears.
I just cried.
I feel like crying now.
I'm not going to.
I refuse to cry.
Ever since her dad took her away, I never-- yeah, I never stopped thinking about her.
Let me tell you about your daughter, Sanae.
She grew up with her aunt, and she thought her aunt was her mother.
[Hazel] Oh.
And Sanae was never told about who she is, and she lived this-- this lie from everybody until she was 30 years old.
[Nicky] And so, she went for three decades not knowing about you.
I always thought she did know about me.
-[Nicky] Mm.
-That's the point, I always thought she did and that she was happy.
Is she happy now?
That's what I need to know.
She is happy now, yeah.
And-- I mean, she left the country... [Hazel] Yeah.
...with four children under the age of 10 years old.
She's got four?
I've got four grandchildren?
-Yeah.
-Oh, isn't that great?!
Yeah.
She's got another son, as well.
So, there's five children altogether.
Oh, I'm so pleased.
Are they all in this country or...?
Yes, they are.
They're all doing really well.
-[Hazel] Oh, good.
Good, good.
-Yeah.
Yeah.
And the eldest child has got two children as well.
-A great-grandma!
-Yeah.
Oh, God, that's-- that's absolutely fantastic!
[laughs] I can't believe it.
I bet you wonder what she looks like as well.
Yeah.
Oh, definitely.
Have you got a photo of her at all?
-Can I have a look?
-'Course you can.
[Hazel laughs] Here's your baby.
Oh, my good God!
Oh, she's beautiful!
She is absolutely gorgeous.
-She-- I can see my mum in her.
-Can you?
She's got my mum's eyes and my mum's mouth, yeah.
She's beautiful.
She's gorgeous.
I wish I could put my arms round her now and give her a hug now, I really do.
Your little girl.
[Hazel] Yes, my little girl's not so little anymore.
I've always loved her and always will 'til the day I die.
She's my baby, and she will always be my baby, no matter how old or how big she gets.
I just want to kiss her, hold her, hug her.
Yeah, I just can't wait.
[keyboard clicking] [Davina] Roy Sibblies is searching for his birth mother, Janet, who gave him up as a baby.
Roy was raised by his father and the woman he thought was his mother.
We've told Roy that Janet has died away from the cameras.
Sadly, he'll never get the chance to meet her.
But, today, I can give him some answers and let him know that he was never far from her thoughts.
-Hey, Roy.
-Hello, Davina, you okay?
-Yeah, great.
-Please, come in.
Aw, thank you very much.
Thanks so much for seeing me.
I am so sorry about your mum.
The year that she's passed is the year I decided to start looking for her.
-[Davina gasps] -So it hurts a little bit more.
It was very sudden, and we know this, because we have found your brother and sister.
Brother and sister?
-They're called Jo and Dan.
-Right.
And do they know anything about me?
They've known about you all their life.
Right.
Wow!
I'm shocked.
Wow.
[chuckles] Every year, on your birthday, you were spoken about.
I didn't expect that.
So, she did think about me.
When she was asked how many children she had, she always said three.
-It kind of hurts now... -Yeah.
...knowing that I couldn't be part of her life.
You've wondered what could the reasons have been.
Jo said she'd been told by her mum that her family were putting pressure on her.
She was very young, and the race issue did come into play.
Yeah.
I can get that, because it was late '60s.
I would never hold it against her, ever, because it was different times then.
They also said that she had looked for you.
Oh, dear.
Have you got a picture of my mum?
Excellent.
This is your birth mother.
Oh, wow!
I can understand why my Dad liked her, yeah.
Got a gorgeous smile as well.
It's just unfortunate this is the, uh, the only way I'll see her.
[Davina] Mm.
Have you got a picture of Jo and Dan?
Oh, wow!
They've got nice smiles as well.
They're all very similar.
[Davina] You definitely look part of the gang.
It's a strange feeling, because for 53 years, I've been an only child.
So, now, to see a picture of siblings, I feel quite blessed, really.
I'm hoping, guessing, they'd like to meet?
[whispering] They'd love to meet you.
They can't wait to tell you all about your mum.
I certainly can't wait to hear about her.
[Davina] Mm-hmm.
[Roy] A whole new family to get to know.
Excellent.
[keyboard clicking] I'm feeling quite nervous about today, Dad.
I hope everything work all right anyway.
Roy has traveled to the town where he was born to meet Jo and Dan for the first time.
Every emotion, really, that you can think of is running through me at the moment.
[Roy] I hope they like what they see.
-[Roy] I love you, Dad.
-I do love you.
[Roy] I'm looking forward today to find out a lot more about my birth mother.
She will be living through them, and I hope her spirit is around to-- to feel the love, even though I don't know her, I've never seen her, the love I have for her.
I've got four photos of Roy as a tiny baby that we found in Mum's belongings.
I feel so grateful that I'm gonna get the chance to meet him, but so sad that...
Sorry.
I feel really sad for her that she isn't... [Dan] I must have paced this room 300 times.
When he walks through the door, I'm gonna jump to my feet and grab his hand and give him a hug.
[contemplative music playing] The siblings are meeting at a hotel close to where their mum gave birth to Roy.
[Jo crying] [Dan and Roy crying] [Roy] Oh my God!
[exhaling loudly] Oh, my God!
God, you are tall, aren't you?
-[laughter] -[Dan] I'm afraid so.
-[Roy] Wow!
-I'm the big little brother.
-I'm Dan.
-[Roy] Wow!
-Nice to meet you, Dan.
-[Dan] Nice to meet you.
I'm your little brother!
[Roy laughs loudly] Aw.
[Roy] Deary me.
[Jo] It's so good to meet you.
[Roy] The feeling is so mutual.
I'm standing on tip-toes for you.
[laughter] [Roy] Oh, wow!
So, you're almost like twins.
[laughter] It's the height, isn't it?
[Roy] And one thing I've noticed, I've got our mum's front teeth.
-[Jo] Yes.
-And the eyes as well.
[Jo] I think we all look alike, don't we, in different ways.
Yes, we do.
Yes, we do.
I'm so pleased that we've actually got to meet you and have a relationship.
But a whole new chapter's about to begin.
So, we've got a-- we've got a lot to catch up on.
[Roy] From that very first moment where I walked in and-- and gave Jo and Dan a hug, all the fears that I had, they all disappeared.
I felt like my birth mother was there.
[Dan] I think my mum would have been really pleased... [emotional] to see all her children together.
I do have photos of you as a baby.
[Roy] Oh, my God!
[gasps] Wow!
[Jo] I don't know how old you were, but you were obviously a very new baby.
-[Roy] Is that Mum holding me?
-I think so, yes.
Wow!
Wow!
[Jo] Showing Roy the photos that Mum had kept of him was amazing.
It was just nice to be able to show him how much she cared and how much she wanted him to be in her life.
I haven't seen any pictures of me as a baby.
I don't think my dad has any, no.
Oh, dear, oh, dear!
[Roy] Seeing those photos, that hurt, but a nice hurt, in the sense that my mum has kept them for all of her life.
And then, when I've looked closer, and I've seen my mum's hand and my mum's arm, it's just absolutely amazing.
Absolutely amazing.
You've had a good life?
I've had a fantastic life, yeah.
My dad has been a fantastic dad.
If it's okay with you guys, he'd also like to meet you.
I'd love that.
-Hello, my love.
[laughs] -Hello.
-Pleased to meet you-- at last.
-Oh, and you.
So nice to meet you.
[Eccleston and Jo laugh] [Dan] What a privilege it is to have the opportunity to meet you.
Oh... No, no, let me, let me, I will kneel.
[laughs] [Eccleston] Oh, dear Lord.
Well done.
Finally, we meet together.
We won't be any more stranger now, will we?
[Jo] No.
No, that's exactly it.
[Roy] I've got a brother and sister.
Even though we've only been together a short space of time, I feel like they've been in my life all of their lives.
It's a beautiful feeling.
[keyboard clicking] Growing up in Morocco, Sanae had no idea that she'd been taken from her mother as a baby, and since discovering the truth, she's longed to meet her.
Just I want to see her.
That's it.
I need to find my mum.
Today, I've got some momentous news for Sanae.
Her real mum, Hazel, who loved and looked after her for the first 18 months of her life, has been found at last.
[door knocker sounding] -Hi, Sanae.
-Hi, Davina.
Very nice to meet you.
Can you come in?
Thank you.
Thank you for talking to me today.
I am so surprised that you found out that these weren't your parents, when you were 30.
Yeah.
A surprise for me, and I feel very happy I know-- finally, I know.
You must have had so many questions about your mother.
Yeah, that time I want to-- I want to meet her; I want to give her a hug; I want to know if she's happy, and I want her to know about me, about my kids.
I want to see her.
Well, you will be able to see her, because we have found your mother.
Are you sure?
-[cries] So sorry.
-It's okay.
-She's okay?
-[whispering] She's okay.
I'm sorry.
Tell me, she say okay to meet me, or...?
She'd love to meet you.
I am very happy.
[Davina, whispering] Good.
I can tell you a little bit about what happened.
Please.
So, she married your father quite young, and she loved you so much.
And when you were 18 months old, your father took you to Morocco to meet family-- that's what he told her.
[Sanae] Yeah, okay.
And he came back without you.
He left you in Morocco with his sister and husband, as you know.
She was very, very shocked and upset, and she-- she was broken.
But, back then, she had no power, and once you were in Morocco, your mother couldn't get you back.
Are you okay?
Yeah, yeah, I'm okay.
I know.
I feel sorry for her, because I'm a mum.
I've got the kids, and I'm putting myself in her place, and imagine somebody's gonna take my child.
How can I feel?
She's thought about you.
She's never forgotten you.
She still lives in Birmingham.
She has a son and a daughter.
[Sanae] Oh, my God!
That mean I have brother and sister.
-Would you like to see your mum?
-Yes.
This is your mother.
[melancholy music playing] Thank you.
It must be hard.
Yeah.
Imagine the first time you see picture of your mum, when you are 50!
And you can see her, and you miss her.
I can't believe that finally I'm gonna meet her.
[keyboard clicking] Sanae and Hazel will be meeting for the first time since Sanae was taken to Morocco as a baby.
[Sanae] I'm very excited.
I'm ready to meet my mum a long time ago.
Just time is not came, but today, the time has came.
[phone ringing] -[both] Hello.
-[Sanae] Hi.
[Davina] And Sanae won't be the only one meeting Hazel.
Are you excited to meet your grandma today?
-[son] Yeah, I am.
-How are you feeling?
I'm very happy.
-It's gonna go good.
-Hopefully.
No, it will.
[all laugh] -Bye.
-[Lorna] Love you.
-I love you too as well.
-Bye, Mum.
Bye.
Hazel's granddaughter Mia is bringing her to a city hotel not far from where she last saw her daughter.
-You nervous?
-Very, very nervous.
Can't wait to see her, though, can you?
No, I can't.
I've waited 50 years.
I'm not gonna wait any longer.
[Hazel] Today means the world to me, 'cause I get to see my daughter one more time, at least.
I've always wanted that.
Always wanted to-- to see her again, and I have always lived in hope that one day she would come looking for me.
Never expected it to happen, but I lived in hope of it.
I'm so scared, I'll be honest.
Because I don't know how-- it's so long.
It's so long I'm waiting.
Imagine when I'm 50-- 50 years old, the first time I'm gonna see my mum.
[Yaser] Oh.
[Sanae] Thank you.
[Hazel] Put that down.
Good luck.
[sentimental music playing] Oh, my God!
[cries] [Hazel] Oh, my goodness.
[Hazel cries] [both crying] I've missed you so much, my lovely.
[Hazel] I love you so much, darling.
I have missed you from the day you left.
[Sanae] Me too, I love you so much.
[Hazel cries] [Hazel] Do you wanna sit down here, love?
-It's been nearly 50 years.
-Yes.
-A long time.
-Long time.
I just want to smile at you.
Don't cry.
Don't cry.
Everything is gonna be better.
I hope so.
Are you happy, though?
You are definitely happy, yeah?
-Yes.
-Oh, good.
Good, good.
I'm so pleased.
I knew you as soon as you walked through the door.
You are my daughter.
You are my Serena.
But Sanae now.
It's Sanae, isn't it?
Well, I'll be honest, I want to come back to my real name.
I'm gonna come back to Serena.
I love it, because you give me this name.
I did.
I do love you, my love.
You're the missing piece of my heart.
And now I've found you, and I've got you back.
I ain't gonna let you go.
I feel like it's like a dream, I'm holding your hand.
Yeah.
It's a bit old and wrinkly now, though.
[laughs] Oh, give me another hug.
[Sanae] That is best thing happen to me in my life.
When I hug her, I'm everything.
There's a present for you, with a little note on there.
[Sanae] You are my gift.
[laughs] Well you've got an extra one now.
[Sanae] Oh... That's so cute.
I really appreciate and thank you for not giving up on me straight away when you found out about me.
[Hazel] Today has meant everything to me.
Seeing her in my life again, she is my life, not in my life-- she is my life.
I love her.
I love her, and that's it.
Always have, always will.
-[Hazel] Hello.
-Hi.
-[Hazel] Hello, my darling.
-Hi.
-How are you?
-I'm good, thank you.
[Hazel] Hello, my darling.
How are you?
[Yaser] Oh, my God!
[Hazel] Thank you.
Thank you.
Today, it's the best day in my life.
From 50 years, today is the best day and amazing day.
[Hazel] I'm so pleased to meet my daughter again after all these years.
She's the light of my life.
I've missed her.
I'm glad she's back in my life.
[peaceful music playing]
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