

His father was a gambler who also worked long hours, so Robert’s upbringing was a very lonely one. He couldn’t speak to his father about her either so he has no idea why she left. In the other story, Robert told the show that he’d never known his mother. The two sets of twins had a very emotional reunion. Working with a specialist intermediary, Long Lost Family was able to trace their brothers Paul and Michael. Their started their own search for them but this was where the trail ended. It wasn’t until both their parents had died that the girls felt able to search for their brothers. When she would hear a knock at the door, her first hope would be that her sons had looked for her.” She told me there was never a night that she went to sleep without thinking about them first. Gail says: “My mother felt genuine pain for the loss of her children. Pauline broke her silence about the boys only once in the years that followed. It wasn’t until Gail went to live with her father when she was 15 that she discovered the family secret.

Unbeknown to them their mother then gave birth to twin boys when the girls were four and had them adopted. Gail and Juliet’s father left their mother for another woman when the girls just 3, leaving their mother to cope with the girls and two other children. We also saw Robert who was looking for the mother who disappeared from his life when he was just a toddler. This week we saw the stories of twins Gail and Juliet looking for their twin brothers.
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It’s been a brilliant series so far and episode 5 of Long Lost Family was no exception.
