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Emotional moment woman, 48, who was left in a phone box by her birth mother with a heartbreaking note promising to return one day meets her half-brother on Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace after six-year search Susanne Barrow, 48, was abandoned in an East London phone box READ MORE: Touching moment man, 59, who was abandoned at Reading station at 2 weeks old finally meets a biological relative, a first cousin - and she was also left as a baby on the steps of a Dublin church By Jessica Green For Mailonline Published: 17:53 EDT, 12 June 2024 | Updated: 17:55 EDT, 12 June 2024 e-mail 6 View comments This is the emotional moment a woman who was abandoned in a phone box as a newborn baby met her half-brother for the first time on Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace after a six-year search. Susanne Barrow's story was one of the very first foundling cases the ITV team took on - and after more than half a decade, the researchers finally discovered a close DNA family match. The 48-year-old was found in a phone box in East London when she was only a day old, alongside a heartbreaking note from her birth mother, who promised to one day return.

'I cannot keep the baby. Please call her Maria. My maiden name is Roberts and I would like her to have it,' read the message.



'I have no one to help me so please take care of her for me. I am going to try and find her again, even if it means going to jail.' Astonishingly, Susanne's birth mother had tried to find her daughter three months late.

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