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Daughter secretly reunites her parents 40 years after they were forced apart for having child out of wedlock
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by renovatio | September 18, 2008 at 02:34 am
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Nice to read a story with a happy ending for a change.Good luck and God bless to them all.
Two lovers banished from each other's sight when they conceived an illegitimate child nearly 40 years ago have been reunited by their daughter and are to marry.
Christine Orchard, 57, and Chester Locke, 64, from Taunton, Somerset, fell in love after meeting at a youth club in 1965.
Mrs Orchard discovered she was pregnant two years later, aged 16, but her mother said she could only keep the baby on the condition that she cut Mr Locke, then 21, from her life.
The daughter they had together, Tracey Orchard, now 40, decided to hunt down her birth father 12 years ago, moved by the death of her grandparents.
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at 03:12 on September 18th, 2008
renovatio, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Now here's a Romeo and Juliet tale with a good ending! Leaves a person wanting to know more, like whether the couple had married other parties in the intervening years and whether they had other kids. One might wonder if they dated long upon reuniting, or if their old love still burned bright. This story would make a darn good romance novel or Lifetime drama! I'd love to write a screenplay some day -- might do it someday, too, already having the perfect story.
Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com