“I asked if we could go and get him back,” Urmston said, “she did explain that it didn’t work that way, so I promised her that I would find him for her one day.”
Now they were finally being reunited.
“She had wanted that since being as young as I can remember,” Urmston said, “so yeah, I gave her that. I promised her that.”
On the mantlepiece in Susan’s home was a picture of Green as a baby.
It had been sent by his adopted parents to his birth mother days after his adoption.
The same photograph had also been displayed in his adopted parents’ house.
Green had known he was adopted since he was 10 years old – his adopted parents had shown him the paperwork.
But he says he had a very happy childhood, and had never harboured any desire to track down his birth mother.
“I didn’t feel like I had to go searching or have any unanswered questions,” said Green.
For all three, finding each other has been a life-changing experience.
“I went from having really not a lot of positivity in my life at the time, to finding out that my best friend was my sister,” Green added.
“I’d found my birth mum being able to sort of make her truly happy. And I’d found a family really that I never really knew existed.”
Their mum died recently, but both say they are glad she got to be reunited with her son.
“She was so desperate to find you to make sure you’d had a really good life,” Urmston said.
For Urmston the reunion is bittersweet. She had longed to find her brother for years.
“My mum and dad, they separated unfortunately and so I went through a lot of hard times knowing [Dave] was out there but I didn’t know [where].”
Both though now say they are making the most of the time they have together after moving in with each other in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It is, they say, their “lottery win”.
