Monday TV Tips: I remember crying, all my tears were dropping on his face as I was feeding him - Long Lost Family
Lynne Oakes' son: Long Lost Family. Picture: ITV/UTV
The team meets a man whose only memento of his birth mother and siblings is an old newspaper article which reveals that they were squatting in an airfield after being evicted from their home. They also hear from a mother searching for the child she hasn't seen since he was 10 days old.
When Lynne was only 14 years old, her safe and carefree childhood was shattered when she became pregnant by an older man who then disappeared. Lynne was sent away to a mother and baby home. When Lynne’s baby boy was born, she named him Eugene and spent several days taking care of him in hospital. Lynne recalls: “I loved every minute of it, bathing him, I’d sing to him, and I’d talk to him. For 10 days you get to love something … Then the very last day I remember crying, all my tears were dropping on his face as I was feeding him and I was talking to him saying I was sorry and I told him I loved him and I’ll always love him and one day I would find him, and then they put him in the cot … they just wheeled him away and that was it.”
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