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Who Do You Think You Are? Carol Vorderman

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Wotzknot · 28/09/2007 11:23

Did anyone see this. I thought it was very interesting to see as a mother, how she looked back at her relationship with her father and realised she had left it all too late.

so sad.

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cremolafoam · 28/09/2007 11:27

yes very sad.i felt she was really trying to hold ittogether for the whole time when really she was quite emotional.
doesn't she look like her mum at the same age.loved that photo taken in the 60's

Wags · 28/09/2007 11:28

Yes I watched it last night as well. Felt very sad for her, glad she found out something about her Father when he was young though. I am adopted and have never really had any wish to trace my biological parents but seeing things like this make me a bit more curious. Where do certain personality traits come from? Who do I look like, sound like that sort thing? Interesting.

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Wotzknot · 28/09/2007 11:34

My father died when I was 12 and I will never be able to share any time or memories with him.
It was interesting to see, that she knew he was alive, but didn't realise how precious time is until as she said herself "As you get older you realise that you shouldn't leave it till it is too late." Or words to that effect.

Regrets, we call carry them.

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Wotzknot · 28/09/2007 11:34

Meant to type
Regrets, we all carry them.

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Wotzknot · 28/09/2007 23:25

Wags I hope your curiosity will bring you happiness.

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brimfull · 28/09/2007 23:28

but what about that white outfit

TnOgu · 28/09/2007 23:31

Dh's father died when he was 16.

He feels cheated that he never really got the chance to know him.

He's still finding out bits and pieces about the man he called dad, things that as a child would have held no interest, but which now make up a bigger picture, all the little personality traits.

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Wotzknot · 28/09/2007 23:32

and the red dress and that white off the shoulder frilly shirt . She looked great for her age though and she has a naturally 'happy' face. I thought it was a good programme.

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Wotzknot · 28/09/2007 23:39

TnOgu
cheated is a good word. I still need to sort out things in my head too about it and it was so long ago. Probably the same for your DH and grief at that time were delt with differently than today.

I have found as my dsd and my own dds get older I realise what appeared so 'normal' (was told it happened to lots of families) was infact not so true and cheated is a good word.

I am considering ow about dealing with my grief years after it happend. At that time families did not have the support and netrworks that are around now.

We got on with it.

Simple things like not having a car to make 40 mile hospital visits, and as a child, you don't expect anything. Looking back, it's hard.

Too sad to carry on. Must skip to lighter things and keep this for another day.

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TnOgu · 28/09/2007 23:47

Someone so important slips away from you before you realise fully what you had.

edam · 28/09/2007 23:55

I can see how that programme might well have brought up painful memories for lots of people.

It was very moving. Her mother must have been a bit of an unsung heroine, tbh, bringing up how many children on her own - remember CV saying she shared a bed with her mother until she was nine, they were that short of room?

But I'm glad she found that the good stories about her dad - and great-granded - were fundamentally right. So often the story of adulthood is about discovering our parents are not superhuman. It's nice to see it kind of the other way round.

She does need to sack her stylist though (or maybe the stylist actually tones her down?). And I would never have guessed she was Welsh.

edam · 28/09/2007 23:55

grandad

Anteater · 29/09/2007 00:03

at least CV is helping everyone who has a debt problem, how kind she really is..

2mum · 29/09/2007 10:59

I missed this, i forgot to watch it. I did watch the one with Griff Rhys Jones and it was good.

Mungarra · 02/10/2007 15:15

I felt annoyed that they were going on about her 'brave' father. This man abandoned his wife and 3 kids (including a newborn baby) and disappeared for 42 years. That doesn't sound very brave. Because he died, they called it a 'separation' but he clearly didn't support his kids at all after he 'separated' from his wife.

hotcrossbunny · 02/10/2007 15:35

My dh has had no contact with his father since he was 9. He's now nearly 40. We watched this together which I found quite uncomfortable and I wondered what dh thought of it but nothing was said. I've asked in the past if he ever wondered about his father and he said no... I would want to know if I had more family out there I think.

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