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THE DAILY MAIL offers the opportunity to re-establish contact with long-lost relatives and friends. Each week, MONICA PORTER features the story of someone trying to find a missing loved one and a tale of people reunited. Produced in conjunction with the voluntary tracing service Searching For A Memory,emory, run by Gill Whitley.

A FORMER au pair has never forgotten the little girls she looked after in the 1960s.

‘ I was employed during my college vacation in 1964, and later in 1965, by the Cheatle family, who lived in Buckhurst Hill, Essex,’ writes Lucie Ann Mansfield, nee Roberts, 80, of Lincolnshire.

‘There were two little girls, Elizabeth, four, and Lucy, two, and the parents were Derek and Doreen. They treated me more like a member of the family than an employee.

‘I ate with them, including lovely Sunday roasts with wine, and, on my days off, breakfast in bed! I was included in their social events, visited their second home in Frinton- on- Sea, Essex, and met the extended family.

‘I took Elizabeth and Lucy on their first train journey and it was good to be trusted and given real responsibility.

‘ I qualified as a teacher in 1966 and married in 1971, which was when I last heard from the Cheatles.

‘My husband and I lived in Leeds, where our children, Stella and Duncan, were born.

‘I’m not expecting Elizabeth and Lucy to remember me, but I’d like them to know how much I enjoyed the time with them, appreciated their parents’ kindness and regret losing touch.’

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