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Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Despite these repeated appeals, no one does.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Jess is placed in foster care and after three months, she's matched with a Suffolk couple who already have one adopted daughter.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

After this dramatic start, Jess tells me her life was pretty happy.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Actually, what she describes is an idyllic childhood.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

She says there were aunts, uncles and grandparents living on the same street.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Jess and her sister Laura roam free, surrounded by love and affection.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Jess has always known that she's adopted, but she tells me that until she's 11, she never really thought to question why.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Until this one day...

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

For her birthday, her parents had given her a TV for her bedroom.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

But the screen kept going fuzzy, so she and her dad are out shopping for a new aerial.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

There they are, just parking up outside B&Q.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Laura is Jess's older and also adopted sister.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

A few weeks earlier, Laura had found out about her own birth parents.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Then and there, in the car, he tells her that she was found abandoned and that no one knows who her birth parents are.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Most of us have an origin story, how we arrived into the world, who was there, what was said.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

Jess has assumed that she has one too, just like her sister, Laura.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

But from this moment on, she's aware of a void, a complete blank where her beginning should be.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
On the verge | Foundling Ep 1

And that not knowing, it's tough.