0:00:02 > 0:00:05Families can be driven apart for all manner of reasons.
0:00:05 > 0:00:07My mum went away and didn't come back.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10And when you do lose touch with your loved ones...
0:00:10 > 0:00:12I never saw Catherine again...
0:00:12 > 0:00:15..finding them can take a lifetime...
0:00:15 > 0:00:17I wonder where he is, I wonder what he's doing.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19You don't really know where to begin.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23..especially when they could be anywhere - at home or abroad.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28And that's where the family finders come in.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Hi, it's the Salvation Army Family Tracing Service.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34From international organisations...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37There's never been a day when we have never had new enquiries.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40..to genealogy detective agencies...
0:00:40 > 0:00:44- When was it you last had contact with him?- ..and dedicated one-man bands...
0:00:44 > 0:00:47I like to do searches that other people can't get
0:00:47 > 0:00:49because it makes me feel good.
0:00:49 > 0:00:54..they hunt through history to bring families back together again.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56You are my biological dad.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00In this series, we follow the work of the family finders...
0:01:00 > 0:01:02This case came from our Australian colleagues.
0:01:02 > 0:01:03..learning the tricks they use
0:01:03 > 0:01:06to track missing relatives through time...
0:01:06 > 0:01:10I'm 68 years of age, she's 75 years of age and we're just starting off.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14..and meeting the people whose lives they change along the way.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18- I said, "Well, this is your younger sister".- It's a miracle.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21I was struck speechless, I couldn't stop crying.
0:01:21 > 0:01:25- It's a proud moment for Dad.- It was the start of finding my family.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36There are a wealth of agencies all over the UK that can help
0:01:36 > 0:01:38reunite estranged families.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40I don't just look for dead people,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42I also look for live people, trying
0:01:42 > 0:01:45to reunite relatives or friends who have lost contact with each other.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48But not everyone chooses to call in the experts -
0:01:48 > 0:01:52plenty of people decide to turn family finder themselves.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Nowadays, you sit down at your computer, go onto the screen,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57click the mouse and hopefully,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00the computer will do the searching for you.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03And that's exactly what 40-year-old Tracy has decided to do
0:02:03 > 0:02:06on behalf of her father, George Chapman.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09It was about eight months searching through all the files
0:02:09 > 0:02:13until we actually found what we thought
0:02:13 > 0:02:14was a family member.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20Throughout his tough upbringing in 1940s Northumberland, George
0:02:20 > 0:02:23believed he was an only child.
0:02:23 > 0:02:28Well, I was born in 1946 and moved to a place called Hartford Huts,
0:02:28 > 0:02:32which belong to the council now, but they were Nissen huts, you know?
0:02:32 > 0:02:35Had no toilets or anything, you had to walk a quarter of a mile
0:02:35 > 0:02:38if you wanted your toilet! And, er...
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Were there till I was nearly four year old.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47The council had built a new estate at Bedlington Station
0:02:47 > 0:02:50and that's when we all moved on to Bedlington Station.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54I had a couple of paper rounds, to make a big pot of money
0:02:54 > 0:02:58and used to come back in the morning and do my mam's breakfast
0:02:58 > 0:03:02because she'd turned blind, you know? She couldn't cook.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07Then away to school, come back at dinner time.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Do a little sandwich or something for her, you know,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13because she was diabetic, so she had to have food.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18Many a time I came in and she was in what we call a diabetic coma.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23I had to try and get her out of it with plenty of sweet tea.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27My dad contracted TB and he was ill with that,
0:03:27 > 0:03:30so I had two ill parents for a long time.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33I hadn't any help from social services at all
0:03:33 > 0:03:37and I still had to go to school, but I coped, you know.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41With so many responsibilities at home,
0:03:41 > 0:03:45George was encouraged to go on a school trip when he was 15.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49My dad said, "Oh, get away - you need a break" and that, you know.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53My mother was in hospital at this time,
0:03:53 > 0:03:56she'd been took in two days before I went, but they told us to still go.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01So I went away and everything was all right and...
0:04:02 > 0:04:05A week later, I got a letter saying my mother had died.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08And she had been buried.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13And nobody had informed us, you know, till then.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19My dad and me
0:04:19 > 0:04:22just had to get on with our two selves
0:04:22 > 0:04:24until I started going out with Maureen.
0:04:26 > 0:04:30George and Maureen became engaged and got married not long after.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Then, a few years later, George's dad also passed away.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38I was 22 when my dad died
0:04:38 > 0:04:42and I was going through a lot of papers,
0:04:42 > 0:04:45you know, clear the house of your dad's stuff and that.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49Stuffed away in a little wallet, hidden away,
0:04:49 > 0:04:53was this adoption certificate,
0:04:53 > 0:04:56which I had never seen.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58So I looked at it and...
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Couldn't believe what I saw and I'm shocked.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08You know, nobody telling me this, you know?
0:05:09 > 0:05:12George had lived for 22 years thinking that the people who
0:05:12 > 0:05:15brought him up were his birth parents.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Naturally, he wanted to know more about his background,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21so he asked his relations for any information they had.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25They were all sworn to secrecy.
0:05:25 > 0:05:31I asked my Auntie Ruthie and she says, "Just leave well alone
0:05:31 > 0:05:34"and just get on with your life and forget about it", you know?
0:05:35 > 0:05:39Which I said I couldn't, now. Now that I've found out that...
0:05:40 > 0:05:43..I'm adopted.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45My mother might be alive, you know?
0:05:46 > 0:05:51But they wouldn't tell us anything. They wouldn't say a word, you know.
0:05:51 > 0:05:55But George wouldn't give up and eventually his relatives
0:05:55 > 0:05:58agreed to tell him his birth mother's name, but nothing more.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Putting it all to the back of his mind,
0:06:01 > 0:06:06George went on to have a family of his own with wife Maureen.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10The family kept asking me, "Are you going to pick this up?"
0:06:10 > 0:06:13and things like that and I says, "No, just let it be."
0:06:13 > 0:06:15I felt ashamed.
0:06:17 > 0:06:22Because I was adopted. The stigma of being adopted, you weren't wanted.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Pushed out to somebody else, you know?
0:06:26 > 0:06:29It was this sense of stigma that George's daughter Tracy
0:06:29 > 0:06:31struggled with the most.
0:06:31 > 0:06:35I felt upset about the way
0:06:35 > 0:06:38HE felt about it, because to me,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41obviously, things had changed by this point with adoption
0:06:41 > 0:06:44and things like that and I didn't think that there was a stigma
0:06:44 > 0:06:48to it and that he shouldn't feel ashamed or anything like that.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50He should just...
0:06:50 > 0:06:53you know, want to look and find out where he had came from
0:06:53 > 0:06:54and where his real family were.
0:06:56 > 0:07:02I always used to ring my mum and say I wish my dad would do it.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05She'd always say, "Well, we'll try, we'll keep pushing him
0:07:05 > 0:07:06"to see if he will."
0:07:06 > 0:07:11I think we'd managed to talk him round to allowing us
0:07:11 > 0:07:14to make the first steps to look for his family.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17George finally felt it was OK
0:07:17 > 0:07:21to show Tracy his adoption certificate.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25- This is how it started, I found this.- Yeah.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29And I couldn't believe it when I saw the date that I'd been adopted,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32what with me being born on 4 May.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33It's...
0:07:33 > 0:07:39The whole thing was completed in 1946 on 31 May.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41- That's it.- Yes.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Armed with her dad's adoption papers, Tracy approached
0:07:46 > 0:07:51Northumberland Social Services, who gave her his birth certificate.
0:07:51 > 0:07:53This crucial document gave them
0:07:53 > 0:07:56confirmation of George's original name.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00They gave you the name of your mam,
0:08:00 > 0:08:02who was Purdy, formerly Foster,
0:08:02 > 0:08:04which was her maiden name.
0:08:05 > 0:08:10With this vital information, the next part of the search could begin.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14We went on a site on the internet and you could search through births,
0:08:14 > 0:08:18deaths, marriages. There was a census on there as well.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21If, like George and Tracy,
0:08:21 > 0:08:24you fancy searching for a UK birth, marriage or death certificate
0:08:24 > 0:08:27online, there are various resources available.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31You can find indexes of the registration of a birth, marriage
0:08:31 > 0:08:34or death from 1837 to the present day
0:08:34 > 0:08:36for free on the web database.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Or there are a number of subscription genealogy
0:08:40 > 0:08:44websites for which membership fees can be as little as £20 a year.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48By tracking down George's birth certificate,
0:08:48 > 0:08:52Tracy's research had opened up a wealth of possible leads.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54We searched through the births first.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57My dad's original birth listing was on there.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00A lot of the information was hard to find because we didn't know
0:09:00 > 0:09:05that my dad's birth mother's name had changed with her being married.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08I looked under the marriages from Mary Purdy
0:09:08 > 0:09:13and it came up saying that she had been married to George Clough.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16So then we put in Clough...
0:09:17 > 0:09:21..in the next ten years and it brought up Christine, Vera and Alan.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Christine, Vera and Alan
0:09:23 > 0:09:26were also children of George's birth mother, Mary.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29At the very least, they were half siblings to George
0:09:29 > 0:09:32and possibly even full siblings and armed with these names,
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Tracy turned her attention to social media.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Me and my niece Rebecca, we had the list of names, and she contacted me
0:09:38 > 0:09:41and says, "Why don't you search through the social media site
0:09:41 > 0:09:45"and see if you can see if anybody is on there?"
0:09:46 > 0:09:50And when Tracy entered the name of George's brother, Alan Clough,
0:09:50 > 0:09:52she seemed to strike gold.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57I said straightaway that he looked like my dad. I could see...
0:09:57 > 0:09:59The bit from the eyes...
0:09:59 > 0:10:03The nose and the eyes, I thought they looked very similar,
0:10:03 > 0:10:05so pretty much thought we'd hit on...
0:10:05 > 0:10:08- The right person.- The right person.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13Tracy sent this Alan a message asking if he might be a relative.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16But they received no reply.
0:10:18 > 0:10:23I just thought, "Oh, they don't want to know, they've rejected it and..."
0:10:23 > 0:10:25But we knew that they hadn't read it.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29But Tracy kept saying, "Well, nobody's read it."
0:10:29 > 0:10:33They hadn't read it, so it hadn't been rejected, you know?
0:10:33 > 0:10:35George's search had hit a dead end.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Little did they know what was just around the corner.
0:10:45 > 0:10:50Since the early 1960s, Britain's divorce rate has risen by 80%.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55And with families splitting up,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58many children get separated from one of their parents.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04That's what happened to Rebecca Taylor, who enlisted the help
0:11:04 > 0:11:09of the Salvation Army to try and track down her biological father.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14OK, can I just take her name, sorry?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18More often than not,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22people can't provide the information that would be ideal.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25We can still work with quite basic information.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36Rebecca's story begins in the Black Country in 1976.
0:11:36 > 0:11:39I was born in Walsall in the West Midlands.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43My mum was from Walsall and my dad was from Walsall and I grew up there.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Rebecca has a few precious early memories of her father Trevor.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50I remember seeing my dad when I was very little.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53I also remember him teaching me to ride a bike.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56At the age of three, her parents split up,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59but Rebecca continued to see her dad.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02I used to see him every now and again.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05I remember he took me to a teddy bear's picnic in the park.
0:12:06 > 0:12:11We went to Alton Towers and he didn't live with us, but I got to see him.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14However, when Rebecca was ten, her mother remarried
0:12:14 > 0:12:18and the new family decided to start a fresh life in Devon.
0:12:18 > 0:12:23We moved from a semidetached house in Smethwick, which is not the nicest
0:12:23 > 0:12:27part of the world, but that's where we lived, and we moved down south.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31And that was the last time Rebecca saw her dad.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33I stopped seeing my dad when we moved away,
0:12:33 > 0:12:36so my dad was quite keen to see me,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38but then my mum remarried again
0:12:38 > 0:12:42and they had my sister when I was ten years old.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46It may have been a fresh start for her parents,
0:12:46 > 0:12:49but Rebecca struggled to adapt to life without her father.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53I actually always wanted my dad, not my stepdad. Um...
0:12:53 > 0:12:57You know, it was quite difficult, especially at that age, being ten,
0:12:57 > 0:13:00just on the cusp of becoming a teenager...
0:13:00 > 0:13:02You know, teenage hormones and everything.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05I don't think I was always the easiest teenager, to be fair.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Leaving her father behind hit Rebecca hard.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14I used to get quite emotional,
0:13:14 > 0:13:16quite upset that I didn't know where my dad was.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21And yearly celebrations only made things worse.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25I always remembered my dad was there, he was never forgotten.
0:13:25 > 0:13:30I always remembered him, especially at poignant times, family occasions
0:13:30 > 0:13:34like birthdays, Fathers' Day, Christmas, things like that.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38You know, you want your family there - that's the family times,
0:13:38 > 0:13:42so I really missed him then. I really wanted to have him around.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45Even though she grew up far away from her biological father
0:13:45 > 0:13:48and had just a few blurry photos of him,
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Rebecca was always determined to track him down.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54I always said to myself, "I'm going to find my dad one day.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56"I'm going to do it."
0:13:58 > 0:14:02It wasn't until Rebecca was in her 20s that she first decided to
0:14:02 > 0:14:05- take up the search.- For years, I'd wondered where he was.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07It was quite heart-wrenching in a way,
0:14:07 > 0:14:11because you don't really know where to begin.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13She started with the phonebook.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17I thought, you know, I'm going to ring up people with the same name
0:14:17 > 0:14:21who live in that area, just on the off-chance it might be him.
0:14:24 > 0:14:25So I'd pick up the phone...
0:14:28 > 0:14:31And say, "Hi, I believe you may be my dad because you've got the same
0:14:31 > 0:14:35"name and you live in the area - did you have a daughter called Rebecca?"
0:14:35 > 0:14:37In desperation,
0:14:37 > 0:14:41she called no fewer than 17 people with the name Trevor Matthews.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44"No, sorry, love. Really sorry, but I'm not your dad."
0:14:44 > 0:14:47That was quite disheartening.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51I realised that probably going through the phone book wasn't
0:14:51 > 0:14:52going to find my dad.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Disheartened and demoralised,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00these early setbacks knocked Rebecca's confidence.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05She gave up on her initial search, but she never gave up hope.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10I knew that he was there somewhere, wondering, "Where's Rebecca,
0:15:10 > 0:15:11"what's she doing?"
0:15:14 > 0:15:18Ten years later, Rebecca decided to start looking for her dad again,
0:15:18 > 0:15:23this time, with an awareness of the search capabilities of the internet.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I'd started doing searching for birth certificates,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29death certificates, because I didn't know if my dad was still alive
0:15:29 > 0:15:32and I was kind of grasping at straws a bit.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34She may not have had much to work with,
0:15:34 > 0:15:37but all the advances in technology meant Rebecca's searches
0:15:37 > 0:15:40were far more focused this time around.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43I put in my dad's name, where he was born,
0:15:43 > 0:15:46and birthday, and I came across an amazing story.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52Rebecca found an article relating to a Trevor Matthews.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56"To our brother on 20 February, have a great day, love you,
0:15:56 > 0:16:01- "from sisters and families and Auntie Peggy."- But with no knowledge of
0:16:01 > 0:16:03this Auntie Peggy, Rebecca couldn't
0:16:03 > 0:16:05be certain if she had the right man.
0:16:05 > 0:16:10When I opened the page up, there's a photograph of him and I thought,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13ah, that's quite eerie, because that actually does look like my dad
0:16:13 > 0:16:16from what I can remember when I was nine, ten years old.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20And ultimately, it was the photo that convinced Rebecca
0:16:20 > 0:16:21she MUST have the right man.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26I saw that and thought, "Wow, I actually think this is my dad."
0:16:29 > 0:16:32With a photo, date of birth and location,
0:16:32 > 0:16:37Rebecca would have had a fighting chance of finding Trevor by herself.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39But nervous about making first contact,
0:16:39 > 0:16:43she decided to place the search in the hands of the experts.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47I was in the car with my mum and stepdad and I said,
0:16:47 > 0:16:51"I really want to find my dad, but I just don't know how to get that contact in place".
0:16:51 > 0:16:55And my stepdad said, "Have you tried the Salvation Army?"
0:16:59 > 0:17:02The Salvation Army have a high rate of success
0:17:02 > 0:17:04when it comes to reuniting families.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09Rebecca had made a good start, but she couldn't be entirely
0:17:09 > 0:17:12sure that the man she'd found was her father.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Could the Family Tracing Unit solve the case and find their man?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17She contacted us
0:17:17 > 0:17:21in the first place by filling in one of our online enquiry forms.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25She provided us with her father's full name, date of birth
0:17:25 > 0:17:29and the last known area he was possibly known to be in.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33Rebecca was also able to send us a copy of her birth certificate,
0:17:33 > 0:17:37her parents' marriage certificate, which was able to help us
0:17:37 > 0:17:38with our searches.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45They had some basic information, but the Salvation Army now needed
0:17:45 > 0:17:48to track down Trevor Matthews' current whereabouts and then
0:17:48 > 0:17:52write to him, asking if he would like to reconnect with his daughter.
0:17:53 > 0:17:58And while this all took place, all Rebecca could do was wait.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08In Tyne and Wear, ten months had passed since George
0:18:08 > 0:18:11and his daughter Tracy sent a message on social media to the
0:18:11 > 0:18:14man they thought to be his brother Alan.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16Understandably, they'd given up hope.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21But a mere ten miles away, his prayers had just been answered.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24I didn't go on for over a year
0:18:24 > 0:18:27and on 27 December,
0:18:27 > 0:18:30for some reason, I decided to go on
0:18:30 > 0:18:33and I realised I had a message
0:18:33 > 0:18:35and when I opened the message,
0:18:35 > 0:18:37it was from a Tracy Stephenson.
0:18:39 > 0:18:44She said her father had been doing his family tree and his mother
0:18:44 > 0:18:48was called Mary Purdy, nee Foster,
0:18:48 > 0:18:50who then married George Clough.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54And asked if I was a relative.
0:18:54 > 0:18:59When I seen this, I thought, "God, I don't believe this".
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Because Mary and George were my mother and father.
0:19:03 > 0:19:08So I replied to Tracy's message telling her who I was
0:19:08 > 0:19:12and I gave the telephone number out...
0:19:13 > 0:19:16..and George phoned me a couple of days later.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20I picked the number up and walked around the bedroom and Maureen
0:19:20 > 0:19:25says, "We're all going out of the way so you can be on your own upstairs.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29"You can talk to him and see what happens."
0:19:29 > 0:19:34And that was the most fantastic thing that had ever happened.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I phoned up, I was shaking, I was phoning up,
0:19:36 > 0:19:38and funnily enough,
0:19:38 > 0:19:42the first words out of his mouth was, "Is that George?"
0:19:42 > 0:19:45But he says, "I've been sitting here waiting all morning,
0:19:45 > 0:19:46"hoping that you would phone us."
0:19:48 > 0:19:51And... Oh, I think we spoke for about an hour.
0:19:52 > 0:19:57I wept, you know, that I'd found some family.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59After 68 years!
0:20:00 > 0:20:03Knowing that you've got a brother and sisters,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06it's the best feeling in the world. You know?
0:20:06 > 0:20:08It felt great.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11You know, to know that I had a brother.
0:20:12 > 0:20:18And like I said, it just felt... as though I knew him for years.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23Alan and Christine grew up locally in the same time period as George.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Their life was fairly typical for the place and for the time.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31I left school in 1966 and I went to work in the mines. Er...
0:20:32 > 0:20:36Which was just up the road in Backworth.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38But the music, everything was just great.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43That was my recollection of the '60s.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47Alan and Christine had a loving but tough upbringing with their mum who
0:20:47 > 0:20:51raised them by herself after their father died when Alan was just 11.
0:20:51 > 0:20:56Their mother kept George a secret from both of them all her life.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58I was 21 when she died
0:20:58 > 0:21:03and she never mentioned anything whatsoever.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04I just couldn't take it in.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07I just thought my mam's not me mam, not the person I knew.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09It was just a shock at first for me.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Alan came down New Year's Day, specifically to make me
0:21:14 > 0:21:17talk to him and I never regretted it from the day I did.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22It's Christine's birthday today and George and his new
0:21:22 > 0:21:26siblings are all coming together for a proper knees up tonight.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30But there's another big event today, too.
0:21:30 > 0:21:35Alan and Christine had a sister, Vera, who died in her 20s.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38But there's also ANOTHER sister, Thelma,
0:21:38 > 0:21:42who now lives in Australia and today, Thelma has come all
0:21:42 > 0:21:45the way over to Northumberland to celebrate Christine's birthday
0:21:45 > 0:21:49and to meet George, the brother she never knew she had.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53When Christine rang to say we had a brother,
0:21:53 > 0:21:55I was so confused.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Which...? Who is he?
0:21:57 > 0:22:02But when I seen the picture of him, it was the image of Christine.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09Get very excited when I see them, yeah. I'm...
0:22:11 > 0:22:14I'm usually very calm,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17but when I come to see the family,
0:22:17 > 0:22:21I do get a bit excited about it, you know?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Just because I've never had anything like this,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26I've been an only one, you know?
0:22:26 > 0:22:32I've always seen a lot of...families,
0:22:32 > 0:22:36you know, when they're all together, and...
0:22:38 > 0:22:42And I've often said I wouldn't mind having a family, a brother
0:22:42 > 0:22:47and sisters... To share, you know, I think it would be lovely.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52And it's happened, I've got brothers and sisters.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55It's the best feeling in the world. I love it.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00George has met Alan and Christine already,
0:23:00 > 0:23:03but this is the first time he'll get to know Thelma.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13- Hello!- Hello, Christine. - You all right?- That's another one.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17After a tough childhood caring for sick parents
0:23:17 > 0:23:19and believing he was an only child...
0:23:19 > 0:23:21What are you doing? Hello, Alan...
0:23:21 > 0:23:26..George now has not just a brother and sister who live ten miles away,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29but also another sister from the other side of the world.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- At long last!- At long last! - My brother, George.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- It's a long flight, isn't it? 23, is it?- 24.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48And then the rest and hanging around the airport...
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Yeah, I think that's the worst part.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54- But it was worth it.- It was worth it.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- Very well worth it.- I'm pleased you've come over.- So am I.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01- I've been looking forward to this for a long time.- I have, too.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05- Now I've got a new family! - That's right!- Yeah.- It's lovely.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08When you think we grew up just...
0:24:08 > 0:24:12- What, ten miles apart? - Ten miles apart, yeah.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Not knowing that the other one existed.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17We could have bumped into each other.
0:24:17 > 0:24:22- We used to go to the coffee shop, the toy shop.- The toy shop!
0:24:22 > 0:24:25We could have bumped into each other there.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27We would never have known.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Just wish that I had met my mother,
0:24:31 > 0:24:36you know, before she died, you know.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38She was young when she died.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40- That's me mam.- That's your mam, yes.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44- That's Alan, when he was little.- She was great, great sense of humour.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48She was strict, very strict. Very strict, but fair.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Shame it's taken all these years to find each other.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57- But we'll make up for it now. - Oh, yes!- The best we can.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01We were shocked and then happy and then saddened
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- because it's taken all this time. - Taken all this time, that's it.
0:25:04 > 0:25:05But it's great.
0:25:05 > 0:25:09It's the best thing that's ever happened to me.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12I've always said I wanted brothers and sisters.
0:25:12 > 0:25:17And I got what I asked for - can I ask for any more?
0:25:23 > 0:25:27In Berkshire, Rebecca had contacted the Salvation Army to help
0:25:27 > 0:25:30find her father Trevor after over 30 years apart.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34The Family Tracing Unit had made some inroads,
0:25:34 > 0:25:37but Rebecca had heard nothing.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41The best place to start, with a case like this one,
0:25:41 > 0:25:45with the information we were provided with, is the electoral roll.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49I was able to cross reference the details which meant
0:25:49 > 0:25:54I was able to narrow it down to possibly the right person.
0:25:54 > 0:25:59After an agonising wait, the Salvation Army had come up trumps.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02They were able to confirm that the man Rebecca had found online
0:26:02 > 0:26:06was her father, Trevor Matthews, and they were also able to
0:26:06 > 0:26:09confirm that he was happy to reconnect with her.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12I got a phone call, two weeks after, roughly.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15I thought to myself, this is going to be an emotional moment,
0:26:15 > 0:26:18so I went into a meeting room, shut myself in there. She said,
0:26:18 > 0:26:20"I've got some fantastic news for you.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23"I'm really pleased to tell you that we've found your dad and
0:26:23 > 0:26:27"he's over the moon that you've taken the effort and found...
0:26:27 > 0:26:29"That he's in touch with you now".
0:26:29 > 0:26:31I was in floods of tears,
0:26:31 > 0:26:34I was just so happy, emotional tears,
0:26:34 > 0:26:38after all these years, I'd actually finally found him
0:26:38 > 0:26:40and he wanted me to find him.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Naturally, Rebecca wasn't the only one
0:26:44 > 0:26:46the Salvation Army had got in touch with.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49When I received the letter,
0:26:49 > 0:26:54saying one of my family would like to contact me, um...
0:26:55 > 0:26:57Well, my mind was doing overtime.
0:26:59 > 0:27:05They left a contact number and I phoned the Salvation Army
0:27:05 > 0:27:07and they told me it was my daughter Rebecca.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11And she'd like to meet up with me.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16I phoned Rebecca and I heard a voice and I thought, I'll be glad
0:27:16 > 0:27:20when I can meet you, you know? Really pleased to meet you.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22And I just want to meet you.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25I was like, "Oh, it's my dad, it's my dad!"
0:27:26 > 0:27:31So that was quite a good moment, when I actually got to speak to him.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35I still recognised the accent, and I felt emotional...
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Happy emotional.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41He kept saying to me, "I can't actually believe this, I keep having to pinch myself.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43"I can't believe this is actually happening",
0:27:43 > 0:27:47because he didn't think he would actually ever see me again.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51Rebecca and Trevor were separated for 30 years.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53There's been a lot of water under the bridge
0:27:53 > 0:27:57and Trevor has only recently been able to share his version of events.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02The reason we split up is because we was different to one another.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Different, chalk and cheese, you know?
0:28:05 > 0:28:08I had a different lifestyle, she had a different lifestyle.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12So what we done, we split, to live our own lifestyles.
0:28:12 > 0:28:17During the recession of the early '80s, divorce rates hit their peak.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21Rebecca's mother and Trevor became part of the statistics.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Rebecca was about ten, I think, something like that.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Nine or ten, anyway.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29And, um...
0:28:30 > 0:28:32After that, I never saw her for, well...
0:28:34 > 0:28:36..30 years.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Yeah. And, um...
0:28:41 > 0:28:43It was so sad.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Because I didn't want to leave Rebecca behind or anybody else.
0:28:50 > 0:28:55But you know, due to circumstances beyond my control,
0:28:55 > 0:28:56I decided to cut.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00And that's what I'll always do.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03I don't know if that's any good, but...
0:29:03 > 0:29:06that's about the truth of it, you know?
0:29:08 > 0:29:11Back in contact, the pair are hoping they can make up for lost time.
0:29:13 > 0:29:17And that's exactly what they did when they first met.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19I went there for the weekend.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22I was supposed to see him on the Saturday and he was
0:29:22 > 0:29:24so keen to see me that he phoned me up and said,
0:29:24 > 0:29:27"I think you should come and meet us tonight. Why wait?"
0:29:27 > 0:29:29I said, "I'm not ready for this yet!
0:29:29 > 0:29:32"This is such a big thing, I'm not ready, let's just do it tomorrow."
0:29:32 > 0:29:35You know, seize the day and all that - just do it now.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37He's asking to see you.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41So we got ready and we went and met him at his local pub, got the taxi
0:29:41 > 0:29:45and the taxi pulled up and he was waiting outside the pub already.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48I was like, "I think that's my dad, I think that's him. There he is!
0:29:48 > 0:29:51"But is it him?" So we got out of the taxi
0:29:51 > 0:29:54and he said, "All right, Rebecca?"
0:29:54 > 0:29:56He was really over the moon
0:29:56 > 0:29:59and it was really good to speak to him again.
0:29:59 > 0:30:03As for Trevor, he's just pleased to get a second chance.
0:30:03 > 0:30:08I'll put back, you know, what I've missed out on. Yeah.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12I'll do my best to do it. Because I'm determined.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16And I'm glad to be back. As Arnold Schwarzenegger said, "I'll be back."
0:30:18 > 0:30:21Rebecca and her daughter Holly now live in Berkshire.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26Today, they're making the 120-mile journey to Walsall.
0:30:32 > 0:30:35Rebecca and Trevor are meeting up somewhere which holds great
0:30:35 > 0:30:37significance to him -
0:30:37 > 0:30:39the industrial region of the town.
0:30:41 > 0:30:45- Hello, Rebecca!- Hi, Dad.- Nice to see you.- And you. How are you?
0:30:45 > 0:30:49- Not too bad. And yourself?- How are you keeping?- Not too bad, thank you.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51It's really good to see you again, Dad.
0:30:51 > 0:30:55I can't get to see you often enough, regular enough, really.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57I know. It's a shame I don't live near you.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00- I know.- But then, saying that, it's not that far.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03This is only the third time they've ever got together
0:31:03 > 0:31:05and because of all the years apart,
0:31:05 > 0:31:09Rebecca has missed out on knowing a whole other side of her family.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Today, Trevor has brought along some photos of her Black Country
0:31:12 > 0:31:15- relatives.- This was my mother's...
0:31:15 > 0:31:19and my dad's 50th anniversary.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21So this is all your sisters, then?
0:31:21 > 0:31:25- So it's you, your mum and dad and all the five of you?- The five of us, yes.
0:31:25 > 0:31:28That's the first time I've seen them all, apart from you.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31- So that's your mum and that's your dad?- Yeah.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33On their golden wedding anniversary?
0:31:33 > 0:31:35Me dad, he was a very good footballer,
0:31:35 > 0:31:38he had a skilled trade, a brass caster.
0:31:39 > 0:31:44- I love photos, but especially old photos.- That was me gran.
0:31:45 > 0:31:49- That's me.- Cor, you're only about four there.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51That's a good photo.
0:31:52 > 0:31:53This is me nan,
0:31:53 > 0:31:56who worked at Norwich foundry
0:31:56 > 0:31:58in Littleton Street.
0:31:58 > 0:32:01She worked there 50 years.
0:32:01 > 0:32:06- My dad also worked there and I also worked there.- Not far from here?
0:32:06 > 0:32:09Not far from here, about a mile down the road there.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12- What type of work would that be? - That's steel and iron,
0:32:12 > 0:32:16castings, grinding, linishing.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20We used to come out of our homes clean and then
0:32:20 > 0:32:25when you came back from work, in the evening,
0:32:25 > 0:32:27you'd be full of dust and dirt,
0:32:27 > 0:32:31sand all over you... Um...
0:32:31 > 0:32:33Because the conditions were appalling.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37Wasn't like health and safety then, was very little existence,
0:32:37 > 0:32:39we never knew anything different.
0:32:41 > 0:32:46We had to get up and go to work and... Just get on with it.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53Trevor's hometown of Walsall is in the Black Country,
0:32:53 > 0:32:57which has a strong claim to be the cradle of industry in the UK.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01It's widely believed this area got its name
0:33:01 > 0:33:05in the 19th century from the pollution created by the local coal
0:33:05 > 0:33:09mines and the soot made by the many thousands of ironworking foundries.
0:33:12 > 0:33:16Trevor worked in these local iron foundries for years.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19It was tough work and it bred a certain type of tough man.
0:33:20 > 0:33:23The area's industrial influence peaked at the start
0:33:23 > 0:33:25of the 20th century,
0:33:25 > 0:33:28but in common with much of the rest of the UK, the Black Country
0:33:28 > 0:33:32has suffered from the decline in industry in recent decades.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35The last coal mine closed in 1968
0:33:35 > 0:33:39while the '70s saw multiple closures of iron foundries.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44And by 1980, iron and steel
0:33:44 > 0:33:47were being made at a mere handful of plants locally.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Inevitably, this industrial decline led to family
0:33:51 > 0:33:55break-ups as husbands lost the only job they'd known all their lives
0:33:55 > 0:33:58and sons and daughters moved to other areas to find work.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08Trevor's had a tough life, spent working in the foundries,
0:34:08 > 0:34:12made even harder by his separation from his daughter Rebecca.
0:34:12 > 0:34:16But now, 30 years later, he's been given a second chance.
0:34:16 > 0:34:20Seeing my dad for the third time was really good, just to connect again,
0:34:20 > 0:34:23and it was really good for him to bring some photographs from when
0:34:23 > 0:34:25they were growing up and his sisters -
0:34:25 > 0:34:27I've never seen them before.
0:34:27 > 0:34:29I'm hoping to meet them in person.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31It takes you right back
0:34:31 > 0:34:33and makes you realise how different things were then.
0:34:33 > 0:34:37It's good to know where my family came from,
0:34:37 > 0:34:41like around this area, and what was actually happening in this area.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44See the factory that they worked at and find out a little bit more
0:34:44 > 0:34:47about the history and what they actually did.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50My mum's always said, I don't think you look that much like her side
0:34:50 > 0:34:54of the family, you've always looked more like your dad's side.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Looking at the photographs of my dad and with his sisters,
0:34:57 > 0:35:00I can actually see that resemblance now.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03Rebecca now has a family of her own and today,
0:35:03 > 0:35:08her daughter Holly has made the trip up to Walsall to visit her grandad.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27- Hello!- Hello, Holly.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30- Nice to meet you. - Are you all right?- Yes, lovely.
0:35:31 > 0:35:35- Long time. How are you? - I'm good, how are you?
0:35:35 > 0:35:37Not too bad, thank you.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39We've brought a present for you today, grandad.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44We've brought you some photos...
0:35:44 > 0:35:49Oh, thank you very much - that's absolutely...beautiful.
0:35:53 > 0:35:57The first picture was me as a baby, five months old.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59Absolutely beautiful.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01You recognise?
0:36:01 > 0:36:02That's a lovely photo.
0:36:08 > 0:36:12That's me and my mum when I was born.
0:36:16 > 0:36:21That's me and Holly when Holly was just a few months old.
0:36:21 > 0:36:24I shall treasure this. It's absolutely beautiful.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27- She's got the family red hair.- Yeah.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32And then there's some from when I was young.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35I was in Zimbabwe there, in 1987.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37I was 11 years old there.
0:36:41 > 0:36:46That one was taken last year, just down the road from here, in Walsall.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48We hadn't found you at that point, so you were probably
0:36:48 > 0:36:52just down the road from us and we didn't know where you were.
0:36:52 > 0:36:55- Thank you very much.- That's all right.- I'll give you a cuddle.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00- I hope you enjoy looking at them. - I will do.
0:37:00 > 0:37:03I've enjoyed putting those together. It's been nice.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07And you, look after yourself. Thank you.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10The great thing is, even though we don't know each other well,
0:37:10 > 0:37:13I've honestly got that connection, because you're my dad.
0:37:13 > 0:37:17You can't replace that. I don't feel that way with other people, so...
0:37:17 > 0:37:18- You won't, will you?- I'd have loved
0:37:18 > 0:37:20to have had you there when I got married, to give me away
0:37:20 > 0:37:23and things like that. It was times like that that I really...
0:37:23 > 0:37:28I really appreciate that, believe me, that you think like that, right?
0:37:28 > 0:37:32- But there's only one thing I want you to do, is be happy.- Yeah.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35That's all I want in the world.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37Well, I'm happier now that I've got you.
0:37:37 > 0:37:42We've writ a book, a part of the book, it's not finished yet, right?
0:37:42 > 0:37:45But now we're moving on to this chapter, your family.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49This chapter in the book is the most interesting part of that book.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Let's leave it like that, yeah?
0:37:55 > 0:37:59It's nice to actually show him, instead of just telling him,
0:37:59 > 0:38:00what's been going on...
0:38:01 > 0:38:05It's good that we've actually made the effort...
0:38:05 > 0:38:08She's made the effort, to finally find him
0:38:08 > 0:38:11and now hopefully, we'll be able to see him a lot more often.
0:38:12 > 0:38:14I'm over the moon.
0:38:16 > 0:38:18And I feel tremendous
0:38:18 > 0:38:20that this... My own daughter
0:38:20 > 0:38:24has searched after all these years for us to come together.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29And now I know we can build a future from here.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32This is the happiest thing that's happened to me in the last year
0:38:32 > 0:38:35and it's something that I will never forget, you know?
0:38:35 > 0:38:37Something you can't recreate.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41I'm lucky to have the rest of my family around,
0:38:41 > 0:38:43but this was like the missing piece, if you like.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46So I'm really glad that I found my dad and now I can spend time with him
0:38:46 > 0:38:50and my two daughters can spend time with him and if they have children,
0:38:50 > 0:38:53hopefully he'll be around to be there for his great-grandchildren.
0:38:53 > 0:38:57So for me, it's a great achievement, I'm really happy.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05In Northumberland, 68-year-old George Chapman has been
0:39:05 > 0:39:08reunited with three siblings he never knew he had.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12George and his sister Thelma have only just met for the very
0:39:12 > 0:39:15first time and George wants to spend some quality time with her
0:39:15 > 0:39:18while she's over from Australia.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21Thelma decides to show George the house that she originally
0:39:21 > 0:39:25lived in as a child and when they arrive, George is in for a shock.
0:39:25 > 0:39:29- So this is where it all began?- Yes, it is, and it all looks different.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31It all looks different, yes.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35This is where you were born, is it?
0:39:35 > 0:39:38Yes, it is. Gosh.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40- Yeah.- A long time ago!
0:39:40 > 0:39:43Yes! Yes.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46It turns out that George also lived on this same
0:39:46 > 0:39:49street for a short period when he was a child.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53I was living here for four weeks with our mother
0:39:53 > 0:39:57and my adopted gran was living next door and...
0:39:57 > 0:40:00- Yeah.- Our gran...
0:40:00 > 0:40:04- Our biological gran...- Just lived a few doors away.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07- 25.- Yes.
0:40:07 > 0:40:11I only remember living with my gran and my uncle.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14My gran knew everybody around.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17There was always people in and out.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21George has later childhood memories of visiting his grandmother.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24I can remember being in an upstairs flat,
0:40:24 > 0:40:27which could have been possibly my granny.
0:40:27 > 0:40:31And although they have no memories of each other, they suspect
0:40:31 > 0:40:35- they may well have met. - When I was born, you were three...
0:40:35 > 0:40:36That's right.
0:40:36 > 0:40:39And your granny lived down there,
0:40:39 > 0:40:41so we may have seen each other.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43Your mother may have brought me down, or something like that,
0:40:43 > 0:40:48you know. It's one of those things that we can't remember,
0:40:48 > 0:40:51but it's a possibility, could have happened.
0:40:51 > 0:40:55It's so strange that you were adopted to someone just here,
0:40:55 > 0:40:59- in the same street. - They possibly knew each other.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01Oh, I would say they did.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05They were very friendly and I think that's part of what happened.
0:41:07 > 0:41:11Sadly, the exact reasons why George was adopted remain a mystery.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18But having spent his whole life wishing he had siblings,
0:41:18 > 0:41:20George's dream has come true.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Tonight, he gets to celebrate his sister's birthday
0:41:23 > 0:41:25with his new-found family.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30I'd just like to thank everyone for coming.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34I'd like to thank George and family for looking and finding us,
0:41:34 > 0:41:36it was the best thing that ever happened,
0:41:36 > 0:41:39and to tell him all his new family love him and his family.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44I'm sure Alan will agree - me and him are much closer now.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47- And that's it! - LAUGHTER
0:41:57 > 0:42:00I was going to have a little party, but the girls decided I'm going
0:42:00 > 0:42:03to have a big party, because I found my brother who I never knew I had
0:42:03 > 0:42:06and it's the best thing that's ever happened.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12This was the first time the four of us
0:42:12 > 0:42:16have had a night out together and it's really good.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19- Nice to take back memories to Australia.- Yeah.
0:42:19 > 0:42:24It's been a fabulous night. We're hoping to enjoy the rest of it.
0:42:28 > 0:42:30Christine's speech was lovely
0:42:30 > 0:42:33and I was very emotional when she made it.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38Um... I really got...
0:42:38 > 0:42:41You know, the lump in my throat at the time.
0:42:41 > 0:42:45But it was nice she said some lovely words about my family and that
0:42:45 > 0:42:47and I appreciate what she said.
0:42:48 > 0:42:53It is better late than never, I mean, it's all happened in...
0:42:54 > 0:42:58Say, really got together, in about six to eight weeks.
0:42:59 > 0:43:03To be together like this, it's just fantastic, you know?
0:43:03 > 0:43:07Being accepted is the main thing for me, being accepted.
0:43:07 > 0:43:11I found them and I'll never let go.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13That's what I want, that's what I've got!