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Lucy Greenwell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
895 total appearances

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Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

And when I re-watched the clip of her on the TV news, there they are, pale denim, big and baggy, with white buckles.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

It was her signature outfit.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Years afterwards, I remember talking to Gussie and my siblings about how those dungarees would have been absolutely perfect to conceal a changing body shape.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

And Catherine thinks she spotted that change one night in Jennifer's bedroom.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Catherine thinks at the time that maybe she's overstepped the mark, that she's offended Jennifer, but she thinks no more of it.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Catherine and Jennifer, they eventually fall out over a boy and they lose touch.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

And after I tell Catherine that Jess is Jennifer's baby, that she'd been pregnant all along, she spent a long time since then trying to work out how it was possible...

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Jennifer grew up in a town hundreds of miles away.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

She arrived in Suffolk to start her new job in June 1987, four or five months pregnant.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

And Catherine recalls something else.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Remember that boy I mentioned, the one she and Jennifer fell out over?

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Jennifer started going out with him in 1988, so just a few months after baby Jess was abandoned in October 87.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Catherine dates him next, and during their relationship, he tells Catherine that Jennifer had confided in him.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

At the time, Catherine assumes that Jennifer was heavily embellishing her role as the saviour of an abandoned baby, and she forgets about it.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

I'm really intrigued by this story.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Was this the first and for decades the only time she acknowledges that she's had a baby, one that was later adopted?

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

Jess is fixated on details like this.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

They're shards of information that she collects, trying to get her head around it.

Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
Under one roof | Foundling Ep 2

There is one person who has all the answers.