What I Don't Know
    
We found out some of the bits I wanted to know, but some of it is not in the records. It tells you what happened to mum and me but it doesn't tell you why. I didn't know anything about mum because Aunt Edie always kept me apart from the rest of them, and I never saw any of them till she died.

It's great what we've found out, but what I'd really love to find out is why I was separated? Why did mum get put in hospital when she had a child to look after? She probably would have stayed if she could. Why did they separate us? OK, so mum was begging, well people still do that nowadays but their children don't get put in care.

I'd love to know why. It's very unfair really. Mum didn't have any say in it, and it's wrong. Why were we separated? Mum hadn't done a crime or anything. If I'd known where mum had gone I would have gone looking, but it's taken me over 50 years to get this far. And we asked just in time because my records were just about to be thrown out.