[Davina] For thousands of people across Britain, someone is missing from their lives.

[woman] I have no recollection of my mum at all.

Not a smell, not a memory.

Nothing.

[man] I feel something's missing.

I would love to get rid of the loneliness that I do feel.

[woman] Has he passed away?

Is he still alive?

Or am I looking for someone that doesn't exist anymore?

Finding someone when the trail has gone cold can feel like an impossible task, but that is where we step in... -Your birth mother.

-It's my mum.

...offering a last chance to people desperate for help.

"I last saw you as two boys, now you're both grown men.

To see you both again would be like a dream come true."

-Is he happy?

-He's so happy.

Is he really?

I'm so pleased.

With no idea where our searches will lead, we've travelled the world hoping to solve some of our toughest cases yet.

-We found you at last.

-[man] Yeah.

Your letter was intercepted and she never received it.

[sighs] I used to say a little prayer and hope the Lord would keep him safe because I knew I couldn't.

[Davina] And finally, unravelling mysteries that have overshadowed entire lives.

-I've waited so long.

-I'm so glad you kept trying.

I really am so glad you kept trying.

This week, two stories of children separated from their mothers.

A man whose life has been haunted by a fear of rejection... [man] I seemed to think that she didn't want me.

If you're not wanted, it hurts.

...and a woman finally ready to meet her daughter.

[woman] I've carried this secret for years and years and years.

You've got to face your demons, haven't you?

[dramatic music playing] [Davina] Our first search brings us to Derbyshire and a man who hopes, that by finding his mother, he can lay to rest the feelings of rejection that he's lived with for decades.

[man] I'm not an emotional person.

I don't show emotions, I will hide my feelings.

Fifty-five-year-old long-distance lorry driver Laurence Peat is a divorced father of one.

I'm not that type of person that'll walk in and hug somebody straight away.

I have to be asked, "Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, sorry," you know, because I wasn't hugged that much as a baby.

I was loved, but that hugging and closeness wasn't there.

[peaceful music playing] Laurence still lives in the house where he grew up with his adoptive parents Doris and Ian.

-Hi, son.

Come in.

-All right, Dad?

Laurence's 26-year-old son Craig lives just a few miles from his dad.

He's one of the few people Laurence has ever talked to about his past.

Oh, that's me, handsome guy.

I was an only child.

My dad worked full time.

Was always a keen gardener.

My mum was always in the kitchen baking or washing or cooking tea.

When Laurence was seven, his parents asked him to come into the kitchen as they had something important to tell him.

[Laurence] I could tell there was something serious the way they were going to say something.

I'm thinking, "What have I done wrong?"

And that's when they told me at the table.

"We're not your real parents.

You were adopted and your real parents are somewhere else."

Not wanting to distress his mum and dad, Laurence asked no questions and never spoke with them about it again.

[Laurence] I didn't really want to upset them.

I wouldn't have wanted to see the look on my mum's face, saying, "Oh, he wants to know who his mum is."

I don't like people being upset, and I don't think I could have coped with that.

But growing up, one question did torment him.

Why did she put me up for adoption at that early age?

I've always wondered that all the time.

I seemed to think that she didn't want me.

If you're not wanted, uh, it hurts.

Laurence has carried this fear of rejection with him throughout his life.

[Laurence] If somebody likes me, I think, ah, brilliant.

You know, I'll make a go of this, and then six, seven months down the line, maybe a year, it's like I don't think it's working and I'll cut it short.

I don't like rejection.

And I don't like being told, you know, "You're not wanted."

After several unsuccessful relationships, Laurence decided he needed to face up to his past.

But not wanting to upset his parents, he began searching for his birth mother in secret.

I didn't tell anybody what I was doing.

I got in touch with Derbyshire County Council, who sent a social worker out.

We had a chat and she says, "I'll see what I can do."

A search for records unearthed a document that provided Laurence with his first tangible link to his past.

"The record shows you were born on the 29th June 1957.

Your birth mother is recorded as Mary McGhie, and her given address is Rosebank Terrace, Bargeddie, Glasgow, Scotland.

You were adopted on 8th November 1957."

That is the only bit of paperwork I've got.

There's no date of birth so I couldn't track her through that way.

Uh...

It just says a name and her address in Glasgow.

Laurence's adoptive parents have now both passed away and he finally feels able to search openly.

I'm hoping finding my mum or any family, birth family, that it's going to change me, make me different and make me realize that, you know, you were loved as a child and you were wanted as a child.

But for some reason or other, your mother couldn't keep you.

Once I understand why she gave me up, then I can get on with my life and be closer to people.

You know, show my feelings.

I've only ever cried three times in my life.

Me dad died, me mum died, and I got divorced.

And this will be a really emotional time.

To hug your mum after all these years, 50 odd years, will be a real, real, real great feeling.

When we started searching for Laurence's mum, the only thing we had to go on was her name, Mary McGhie, and the likelihood she was born in 1928, in or around Glasgow.

If we had any hope of tracing her, first we needed to track down her birth certificate.

Although we found a lot of Mary McGhies, one caught our eye, born in the right year, ten miles outside Glasgow.

When we checked her family records, we came across the same Rosebank Terrace address mentioned in Laurence's adoption file.

Now we were sure we had the right Mary, we could begin to piece together her life.

We discovered that she'd married twice, the last time to a Mr. Gilsenan in 1973, but because we knew she'd be in her eighties, the next thing we did was check the death records.

And sadly we discovered that Laurence's mum died more than ten years ago, in 1999.

This would obviously be terrible news for Laurence.

But during the search we did discover that he had a half sister who he knows nothing about.

Mary had gone on to have a daughter called Wendy, three years after Laurence was born.

Wendy now lives near Leamington Spa and is married with two children.

She agreed to meet me near her home.

Sadly, Laurence will never be able to talk to his mother about the circumstances surrounding his adoption or ask her whether he was wanted or not, but I'm hoping that Wendy may be able to fill in the gaps... that is, if she even knew she had an older brother.

-Hi, Wendy.

-Hi.

-Nicky Campbell.

-Nice to meet you.

You too.

Shall we have a cuppa?

-Sounds marvelous.

-All right.

And have a little chat about everything.

So, when you found out you had this brother called Laurence who was searching for you, what was your immediate reaction?

"Excuse me, really?

What, my mum?"

I knew nothing about him.

-Nothing?

-Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Maybe it was something she just buried away.

I think so.

Completely buried away.

She was never really a chatty lady.

Obviously we were hopeful when we started this search that we would find Mary, and Mary would be alive.

I'm so sorry she passed away in 1999.

Yeah, it's been quite a while now.

Do you have any photos of your mum?

I do, yes.

I'm afraid I don't have many.

I was there towards the end of nursing home, even then nothing was said.

But she was very "hold it all in" all the time.

She never really seemed to grasp the emotional side of things, really.

Maybe because of Laurence, really, maybe she just lost something when she gave him up.

She never really connected with anyone else.

This is accurate in Laurence, because he's felt a difficulty in connecting, partly because his parents weren't particularly tactile, and he wondered if he'd grown up with his biological mother, if it would have been different.

She wasn't a cuddly mummy.

She just sort of wasn't able to be overly emotional.

But she was a lovely lady, she was always there for you.

Just sometimes wished she would have been a bit more emotional, really.

-Do you?

-Yeah.

I bet you're wondering as well what your mum Mary would, if she were around now, -would make of this.

-I don't know.

She might be quite excited, what it's like to know how he got on and... what he looks like.

Well, this is him here.

That's your brother.

-[Wendy] I can see her in him.

-Can you?

[Wendy] I can, actually.

It's just unreal.

Hmm.

-Sorry.

-No.

That's amazing.

I've got another picture here, which I'm not entirely sure about.

Might be Laurence.

Because she never discussed who it was.

-Seriously?

-And where we lived, we didn't have any grass.

-We had a yard.

-How did you come across this photograph?

This photograph was in a tin of photographs along with a lot of these.

She never said who it was.

-[Nicky] It's definitely not you or anyone... -No.

I said, "Who is that?"

And she said, "Oh, it's just a photograph of a baby."

It's got to mean something to her for her to have kept it.

[Wendy] Yeah.

If it is him...

If it is him and she's kept it, that says it all, doesn't it?

-Yeah.

-How amazing.

When she was dying, she said she's always been lonely.

So maybe she missed him.

[Davina] Adopted as a young baby, Laurence Peat has spent most of his life hoping that one day he would find his birth mother, Mary.

Sadly, we discovered that she died over ten years ago, and out of respect to Laurence, we've already told him the news without the cameras being present.

During the search, we did find out that Laurence has a sister called Wendy who he knows nothing about.

When Laurence came to us, he had one overriding question which has affected him all of his life: was he given away because he was unwanted?

Well, I'm hoping I've got the answer to that question.

If the photo that his mother kept all of those years was indeed of Laurence, then that proves he was never forgotten, and that might just help him lay to rest those fears of rejection that he's always lived with.

-Hi.

-Hi.

How are you?

I'm all right, Laurence, how are you?

-Very well, thank you.

-Nice to meet you.

-Come in.

-Thank you.

I am really, really sorry that we couldn't bring you better news.

That's okay.

But during our search, we have uncovered some other information that we'd like to share with you if that's all right.

-Yeah.

-Um, we found out that your mother had a little girl.

You have a sister.

Your sister is called Wendy.

So, when did she know then that she had a brother?

-Four days ago.

-Really?

She's been looking through lots of photographs trying to find photos of your mother to show you.

-I've never seen my mum at all.

-No.

I think you're going to be quite surprised because it's uncanny how similar you look, I think.

-Is it?

-Yes.

-You ready?

-Yeah.

[Davina] Here she is on the far left.

Crikey.

The first time I've seen my mum in 55 years.

It's a strange feeling.

I've waited so long for this.

[Davina] Wendy told us a bit about her.

Right?

She was extremely generous of spirit.

So a lovely person, but physically, and I know this is something that you've craved, the physical love of a mother, a hug, she was not very good at that with Wendy either.

Right.

Right.

There's one last picture I have here.

She had a box of precious photos.

Sort of special ones that she kept.

-Yeah?

-And there was a picture in there.

Uh, Wendy seems to think that it might be you.

Have you got other baby pictures of yourself?

[Laurence] I have.

I have a photo of, I presume, in my dad's arms when I was adopted.

-And do you look similar?

-Yes.

-Have you got it here?

-I have.

-Can you go get it?

We can compare notes.

-I will.

It really does look like you, this.

[Laurence] I wonder if that was taken at the same time.

-[Davina] Yes.

-The same, the same outfit as well.

Yes, it's without a doubt, isn't it?

Yeah, absolutely.

[Davina] It's a photo that she clung to for all of these years.

She kept it.

Hmm.

So she never forgot me all that time.

Just a pity I couldn't meet her.

But...

I've got photos.

Do you think this will help heal the sort of feeling that you've had that's stopping you from being able to be happy with someone?

Yes, yeah.

Because, you know, when you're adopted, you don't know what's happened or what the reason why is.

And you always think that, uh... that it's your fault.

Because I'm the reason that she gave me up for adoption.

Well, then you don't know the past.

It's obviously a very hard decision for a mother to give up her son.

[Davina] And Wendy did say that she would have thought she was doing the best for you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

[Davina] Are you ready to see your sister?

Yeah.

Wow!

Would you like to meet her?

I would love to meet her, yeah.

I would love to meet her.

I would love to.

[Davina] Before Laurence meets his sister for the first time... our second story begins in Spain, with a woman who lost the battle to keep her baby nearly 50 years ago.

Sixty-three-year-old Denise Temple moved to Spain ten years ago.

Hiya, nice to see you.

Very nice to see you again.

[Denise] I've carried this secret for years and years and years.

People have never known that I've had a baby.

All my life I've carried that shame.

Pepe!

Since losing her husband six years ago, Denise's need to deal with her past has become too great to ignore.

[Denise] It's just something I've got to do.

You've got to face your demons, haven't you?

Originally from Yorkshire, Denise grew up with mum Elsie and dad Walter near Leeds.

[Denise] My dad was a steel plater and my mother had a very low-paid job in a factory.

I mean, people were poor, and you had to work really hard to, you know, to have a nice family life.

As a child, Denise was especially close to her father.

I was a Daddy's girl.

I just adored him.

He was the anchor in my life.

But when she was 15, her father Walter died suddenly of a heart attack.

That's my dad's car.

I love it because I knew my dad was at the other end.

He was taking the photograph.

Not long after her father's death, Denise's mother met a new man, Sid, and moved in with him, taking Denise with her.

[Denise] Sid and me, we didn't get on, and he was nothing like a father to me, nothing at all.

He didn't want anything to do with me.

And because she was getting on with her life, we sort of grew apart, quite a bit, I would think, me and my mother.

I just wanted to be out of the house as often as I could be.

I just started partying and going out.

Leaving all the troubles behind, the house behind.

Just looking for love, looking for love that I'd lost.

After a brief fling with a local boy, and at the age of 16, Denise discovered she was pregnant.

[Denise] I just ignored it.

I knew something was wrong, but I just thought it might go away.

And then eventually I was about seven months and my mother saw my tummy and she said, "What's that, Denise?"

Two months later, Denise gave birth to a girl.

She named her Deborah.

She was beautiful.

[softly] Absolutely beautiful.

But Denise had already agreed with Sid and her mum that she'd give the baby up for adoption.

[Denise] Before it was born, of course, I went along with it because I didn't see that precious face.

As young as I was, I could... the feelings and the emotions, I thought, "I'd die for this child."

I'd die for her and I'd fight anybody that would try to take her from me.

All I did after she was born, I just cried and cried and cried.

I cried from morning to night until my mum came and I said, "I'm not giving her up."

She said, "You've got to do."

I said, "I'm not, I'm not giving her up."

I said, "I want you to go home and tell Sid I'm keeping her."

She said, "He won't have her," and I said, "Well, I'm not giving her up."

Eventually it was agreed that Denise could bring her baby home, but she would get no help from her mum and stepdad.

[Denise] I knew I was very much on my own, and I think probably this was one of the premises that Sid had made, that if I go home to live with them, that it mustn't interfere with their life and what they wanted to do.

In the mid-'60s, there was very little state support for girls in Denise's situation.

[narrator] The majority of unmarried girls who become pregnant are looked after by their families.

[Denise] No help, no social services.

I didn't have any midwives.

I didn't have any people calling to see how she was doing.

And she slept in a drawer perched between two chairs.

And I think she only had half a dozen nappies, so I was forever doing nappies in buckets with solution.

I was so alone.

So alone.

[Davina] After looking after Deborah for three months on her own, Denise made the toughest decision of her life and gave her daughter up for adoption.

[Denise] It just got too much for me.

I thought that this was my life forevermore.

And I couldn't hack it.

As much as I loved her, I knew that it was no life for her or me.

Denise has had to live with the decision she made as a 16-year-old girl for nearly 50 years.

[Denise] The baby I gave away for adoption, I've never forgotten and never will.

So she's always with me.

I want to just know about her, what sort of life she's had, has she been happy.

Because that's all I ever wanted for her.

I want Deborah to know that I've always loved her and I hope to meet her someday.

Denise has spent years trying to find a way to trace her daughter.

But the baby's name would have been changed when she was adopted, and without knowing what it was changed to, she had no chance of finding her.

We worked with a specialist intermediary who was allowed to access Denise's daughter's adoption records.

Eventually it was discovered that Deborah had been adopted by a Mr. and Mrs. Leybourne and they had changed her name to Susan.

Using her new name, she was eventually traced.

Having grown up in Leeds, the city where she was born, Susan now lives in a Northamptonshire village.

She agreed to meet me to find out more about her birth mother.

With most adoptions from the 1960s, the mother and baby would spend a few weeks together before parting, but Denise was so desperate to keep her child that she spent the first three months with her baby.

I wonder what Susan knows about her adoption and I wonder what it's going to mean to her when she finds out that her mother battled so hard to keep her.

-Susan.

-Hi!

-Nicky.

-Nice to see you.

-You too.

-Come on in.

Thank you.

How old were you when you found out that you were adopted?

Well, I was told when I was 21.

-Twenty-one?

-Yes.

When they did tell me, my answer was, "Well, yes, I know."

And of course my mum was like, "But how do you know?!"

And I said, "Well, I just know.

I've always known."

-Intuition or a feeling.

-Intuition, yeah.

Because I was so unlike my family.

-You felt different.

-Very, very different.

Mum was a very fearful lady.

Frightened of the world, very timid.

-Yeah.

-But my mum's attitude to life was, "Don't.

Something bad will happen."

No wonder she was so terrified to tell you that you were adopted and to talk about it because she would have felt maybe incredibly threatened.

Yes.

So I always knew there was something a bit different.

When you spoke about it with your mother, did you not say, -"Who was she?

What was she?

What were the circumstances?"

-She was 16.

-That was all she told you?

-That's all I know, yeah.

Did you ask for more information at the time?

She was so traumatized by telling me that I didn't want to even poke at that dragon.

I was just going to open up a huge wound for my mum.

So I never asked her.

Did you not get a kind of thirst for knowledge?

"Where have I come from?

What is my heritage?"

Did that not grow in you?

"I've got to know the story here."

I went to the public records when I was about 28 or 29.

It was a Thursday afternoon, I remember it clearly, and I thought, "Find a birth where the mum is 16 and, you know, baby born 31st of August 1965."

You know, there can't be more than perhaps one or two.

I found 1965 and I'm thumbing through and I'm thinking, "Here we go, here we go."

The whole file for August was missing.

So I came away and thought, well, you know, maybe I'm not meant to know.

-Ah.

-And that was... you know, really the end, really, the end of the search.

So what does it feel like knowing that your mother Denise, she's been looking for you?

Mixed feelings.

I'm excited, I'm interested.

Um, a bit of trepidation.

I suppose you want to know the story?

Yeah, I do, yeah.

Because I realized the other night, I thought, "Well, I was born on the 31st of August and I was adopted on the 26th of May.

-What happened in that time?"

-It's a long time.

Where was I?

I wondered that.

-You were with her.

-Was I?

It was a prearranged adoption before she gave birth to you.

Then... she gave birth to you and she held you in her arms and she was 16 and she absolutely fell in love with you.

And she said, "I can't be parted from my child," and she tried and tried and she was with you for three months.

It was an impossible situation, and eventually it just became untenable, but God, she tried.

God, she wanted to be with you.

Wow.

Incredible.

I'd like to know what my name was.

-What did she call me?

-Deborah.

-Deborah?

-Hmm.

Wow.

Yeah.

Do you know that when you were growing up, that she couldn't even afford a cot?

-And you had to sleep in a... -A drawer.

Yeah.

How did you know that, that you slept in a drawer?

-I have dreams about this.

-Was that a dream you had?

-Yeah.

Yeah.

-That you were in a drawer?

Now that might be a kind of, a memory that has come through your subconscious.

-Yeah.

-Have you ever met, seen, anyone to whom you are genetically related?

Not a soul.

Well, here's your mum, Denise.

Hello, mam.

[Nicky chuckles] [Nicky] That's her.

So how do you feel about meeting her?

Mmm, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I want to know all about her.

[Davina] For nearly 50 years, Denise Temple has carried a secret.

As a teenager growing up in Leeds, she gave up her three-month-old daughter for adoption.

Now I'm on my way to Denise's home in Spain to tell her the news that her daughter has finally been found.

-Hi.

-Hi, Davina.

How lovely to see you.

-Thank you, thanks very much.

-Welcome.

I read your story and I think one of the things that touched me the most was the battle that you fought to keep your baby when she was born, because that can't have been easy.

I was so naive because I didn't think further than the end of my nose, really.

I just thought about the present and that I just wanted to keep this little baby.

You were probably not expecting to feel what you felt when you had the baby.

The feeling that I got from it was just so different from the love I had for my dad, and I thought, "I cannot let this child go."

I mean, nowadays there's so much support for people and... -These girls today are so lucky.

-Yeah.

And I don't think they would ever understand what it was like for us women then.

In retrospect, do you hold to the fact that you did the right thing?

Oh, yes, without a doubt... without a doubt.

I had to make a decision for the both of us.

It's not because you want to reject them.

It's not rejection, it's the fact that you can't care for them.

The love is always there, it's not a rejection, and I hope she understands that.

Are you frightened that you may have been rejected?

If she wants to reject me, I can accept that.

I'm already in that zone, and I can deal with rejection.

So these searches...

I mean, you could be looking for such a long time, but your daughter has been found.

[gasps] Oh, my God!

Does she want to see me?

-She does.

-Does she?

[Davina] She does.

Oh, my God.

Oh, I'm thrilled, I'm thrilled to bits.

Oh, my... [sobbing] Hey.

[Davina] Adopted as a baby, Laurence Peat has struggled with a sense of rejection throughout his adult life, something that has overshadowed all his relationships.

Laurence had hoped that these feelings would disappear if he could find his birth mother Mary.

Sadly we discovered that she died over ten years ago.

But in our search, we did discover a younger sister he never knew he had.

Today, Laurence will meet his sister Wendy for the first time.

He's hoping that she will give him the sense of belonging he's always wanted.

-Hey, Laurence.

How are you doing?

-I'm very well, thank you.

-You ready?

-I certainly am.

-Let's go.

-Let's go.

[Davina] You have previously felt very alone.

-You're definitely not alone anymore.

-[Laurence] Hmm.

Yeah, I've never had a sister.

[chuckles] -Brother and sister.

-Yeah, yeah.

The thing that always surprised me was that my mother never told Wendy about me.

[Davina] It wasn't because she had forgotten you because she had that picture.

She obviously really cared about you and... -Yep.

-...nurtured that memory of you, you know.

Wendy has asked to meet Laurence in the gardens of Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, one of her mother's favorite places.

[Nicky] In a kind of magical way, she is reunited with him today, isn't she, through you?

[Wendy] Yes, I think so.

At least he's found family.

You know.

Can't help feel a bit teary about the whole thing.

Just wish Mum was here.

Tears of happiness, really, not tears of sadness.

-Yeah.

-Just emotions.

I'm going to say goodbye to you here.

-Good luck.

-Yeah, thanks very much indeed.

Okay.

Thanks a lot.

Good luck.

Go and meet your brother.

Thank you so much.

-Thanks for everything.

-See you later.

-Hi.

-[Laurence] Hi.

How are you?

Nervous.

Nice to see you after all this time.

-Yeah.

-Yes.

Yeah?

Can I have another hug?

-Oh, please.

-Yeah.

Oh, it's lovely.

[chuckles] -The journey you've had.

-I know.

-Yes.

-My heart's racing like mad here.

-Sit down?

-Yeah.

[chuckles] -Have you got some photos?

-Yes, I have.

I've got some, the one of me when I was a baby.

-[gasps] Is it you?

-Which... Definitely.

I've got one that will prove that.

-[Wendy] Go on then.

-If you match it up with that.

[Wendy] Oh, my gosh.

It's definitely you.

I mean, it's just the face.

Yep.

[Wendy] I think it's exciting that she kept this.

-Yeah.

-With all the house moves that she did, that could so easily have got lost.

I think it meant something to her.

This is the picture of my mum I've recently found.

-Right.

-Our mum.

-Our mum.

-Our mum.

[Laurence] How old would she be there?

[Wendy] I'd say 24, 25.

She looks happier there, and I think she looked happier there before she had to give you up.

I think she just found life hard, you know?

In all ways, but emotionally as well.

I'm the same, really.

You know, I'm not a cuddly, lovey-dovey person.

I just thought it was me, you know.

I thought, there's a problem with me, like.

You know, and obviously my mum, our mum, she had the same problem.

You know, and that's where I get it from.

And I feel a lot better actually now about this.

A lot better.

Because it's been so long, and I've been on my own so long, it's nice to have somebody to talk to and relate to who's lived with our mother.

[Wendy] That's Mum when she was working.

[Laurence] There's a closure to it.

I can't stop staring at you 'cause you're... -Honestly.

-[laughing] It's so amazing.

I think it's sad that she's not here, but I think she'd be happy.

I think he's turned out really lovely and I think she would be really proud.

I really do.

[Davina] After nearly 50 years apart, today Denise Temple will be reunited with the daughter she last saw as a three-month-old baby.

Susan has travelled up to Leeds, the city where they were last together.

-[Susan] Hi.

-[Nicky] How are you?

[Susan] I'm good, thanks.

-Shall we do it then?

-Yeah, yeah.

So, what do you think this is all gonna mean for you?

I really don't know, but I'm open for the adventure.

-It's quite an adventure, though, isn't it?

-Yeah.

I hope she's gonna be a bit like me, really, but an older version.

[Denise] I've waited 48 years for this time, and you know, whatever happens, whether it's a happy outcome or we eventually go our separate ways, at least we'll have met.

-[Davina] Hi.

-Hi!

-You look lovely.

-Oh, so do you.

-Are you ready?

-I am ready.

Brilliant, let's go.

[Davina] Denise and Susan will meet in Oulton Hall, just a few miles away from where Susan was born.

-Okay.

-Thank you.

-Everything all right?

-Yes, there we go.

After you.

I know the last time I saw you it was pretty traumatic, wasn't it, that news.

How's it changed you, do you think?

Well, it's just given me a whole new part of my life now.

You'll remember today.

Oh, my God, will I.

[Davina] The day you met your daughter.

This is where I'm going to say goodbye to you.

-Oh, no.

Oh, darling.

-Good luck.

Bye, sweetheart.

Hello, mam.

Hello, daughter.

Oh, you're absolutely beautiful.

[Susan] And you are too.

[Denise] All these years.

Oh, God.

I can't tell you what this means to me.

Let me look at you.

I'm your mum.

-Yeah.

-Come on, let's sit down, have a chat.

[sniffles] -Have you been nervous?

-Up and down.

-We've got a lot to catch up on.

-Absolutely, yeah.

You know when I handed you over that day, in your little shawl and your bonnet, it just broke my heart.

-You're mine.

-Yeah.

[Denise] And this was meant to happen.

-[Susan] Well, we're here now.

-We are.

Yeah.

-And you're so gorgeous.

-Oh.

[laughs] Well, you take after your mother, you see?

We do look alike.

When I saw your photo, I thought, there's so many things-- I thought, she loves her bling.

-And I love my bling.

-You know I'm mad about shoes.

-Hey.

-Ooh, look at them.

-Are you a size 5?

-Yeah.

[laughing] -I'll borrow them.

-They'll fit ya.

[Susan] There was an energy there that I recognize.

I just said quite naturally, "Hello, mam," 'cause it is, it's me mam, my mother, me mam, and, uh... and it felt really natural.

I'm her mum, and it's special.

You know, it's a special thing that I've missed out on so much.

You know, all those years in between, we've got to now think about the future.

So, when are you coming to Spain, then?

Couple of weeks.

[both laughing] Great.

I'll live off this day for the rest of my life.

It's been so special.

[Davina] Next time on "Long Lost Family"... the search for a mother who disappeared without trace when her son was just a toddler.

[man] I can remember asking questions about my mother when I was young.

It was absolutely a taboo subject.

It was almost like she didn't exist.

And twin sisters desperate to find the twin brothers who were kept secret from them for years.

[woman] It was a complete shiver moment.

Thought, my God, that's what was going on.

The boys, the boys were being born.

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