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Long Lost Family

Paula Beer and Sharon Thomas

Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, this series tells incredible stories of people desperate to find missing family, unravels mysteries that no one else has been able to solve and answers questions that have haunted entire lives.

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Paula Beer and Sharon Thomas

Season 14 Episode 2 | 46m 15s | CC

Paula Beer was 17 when she secretly gave birth and was forced to give her son up for adoption. Nearly 60 years later, she still remembers their painful goodbye. Sharon Thomas later discovered she had a younger brother, a family secret after her mother Margaret, gave up a second child for adoption and died shortly after. Sharon is now desperate to find him.

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