If you’re adopted, find out how you can trace your adoption record with our guide<\/a><\/p>Nicky Campbell meets Lyndsey. She says that she thought she\u2019d traced her birth mother and she was a married woman with children, so she didn\u2019t contact her because she didn\u2019t want to bring up the past. Nicky tells Lyndsey that her mother is Ros, who has no other children. He gives her a letter Ros wrote and a photograph of her.<\/p>
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be one of the biggest things in my life,\u201d Lyndsey says about meeting her birth mother.<\/p>
In the other story in the episode, 61-year-old Tegan Cornish wants to find out more about her brother. Tegan was adopted as a baby. When she accesses her adoption records, she\u2019s shocked to find that she has a younger brother called Kenneth. He was originally adopted by the same family, but was sent back into care when he was three months old.<\/p>
\u201cKnowing that he didn\u2019t stay with me is quite devastating,\u201d Tegan says. \u201cI find that quite sad that we could have been together longer. I would absolutely love him to be back in my life.\u201d<\/p>
Kenneth was subsequently adopted by another family, and his name is now Kenneth Allen. Long Lost Family<\/em>\u2019s researchers contact every Kenneth Allen in the UK and they find him living in London, ten miles away from where Tegan grew up.<\/p>Kenneth is now a delivery driver. He says he had a \u201cdistanced\u201d relationship with his adoptive family, but is now happily married to Elsie, his wife of 45 years. They have two daughters, seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.<\/p>
\u201cI would have loved to have grown up with Tegan,\u201d he says.<\/p>
Lyndsey comes down to Cornwall to meet Ros, and the two have an emotional reunion.<\/p>
\u201cI\u2019m full of joy and happiness!\u201d Ros says. \u201cI want to stand on that step and shout to everybody, \u2018I\u2019ve met her, I\u2019ve met my daughter\u2019.\u201d<\/p>
Tegan and Kenneth are also overjoyed to finally meet.<\/p>
\u201cI\u2019m super happy to have a blood brother,\u201d Tegan says. \u201cThere is a bond between us.\u00a0 I feel at ease with him. I don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s a stranger at all.\u201d<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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