Lucy Greenwell

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Tortoise Investigates.

You always hope that it was this lovely love story, that they just couldn't be together.

You just wish any family and anyone from any adoptive background, you always hope and wish that it was some beautiful love story, that it was just unfortunate.

I've got this huge mass of curly hair and that's always been in the back of my mind.

I instantly thought I'd have someone at the end of, you know, if I ever did find them, that would have a huge mass of curly hair.

So these are the newspaper cuttings that... I wasn't the prettiest of babies, but there's a little crocheted dress with crocheted booties.

Oh, there you are.

When I first got into hospital.

And then this one's a baby, abandoned baby Heather, made ready for adoption.

For decades, this flimsy folder of newspaper cuttings is all the information Jess has.

So Heather had been transferred into a loving home just days after being left beside a lonely Suffolk road.

So that's obviously where I went into foster care.