Dorian Reece was shipped to Australia at the age of eight and grew up believing he was either unwanted or orphaned, enduring a miserable childhood in a boys’ home, beaten and abused by men who were meant to care for him.
Yet when he finally met his long lost family after 75 years he found out that his father had begged the authorities to let him bring up his son and to put him in touch with Dorian’s mother, who had been forced to give her son up after having him out of wedlock.
That heartbreaking revelation was too much for Dorian and he could not stop the tears from falling.
