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Kay Hall

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
613 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And now I look back and I think, why didn't I do my nursing?

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

But I worked for 25 years as a social worker in child protection and a lot of my work was to do with loss, grief, children without parents, adoptees.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

Well, what happened was while I was at uni, I started to feel that I had to do something about Jonathan.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

I felt like I had to find him.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And I said to Grandad, your dad, I said, I have to find my son.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

I can't bear it any longer.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

The lid's coming off the box and this...

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

box inside of me was, the lid was lifting.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And he went, oh, the girls don't know.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

He was wanting to protect the girls that they don't know.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And I said, I got to do it.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

So what I did is I knew that, that matron, that nurse knew where my son was.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

So I wrote to the hospital and it was 20 years later.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And I said, oh, she's my auntie and I live in England and I want to find out where she is.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And do you know, they wrote back and gave me her address.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

They'd never do that now.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

So you lied.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

Yeah, I lied.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And she was retired because she was about 70 then.

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Ruby's Nana Kay on her life lessons at 80

And I wrote her this letter and I said, I don't know whether you remember me, but I had a baby and you were there.