I was abandoned as a baby 80 years later I found my brother living a mile away'

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"On Christmas Eve in 1944, as London was hit by the intense bombing of the Baby Blitz, John Moore was left abandoned on the street. Just days old, he was picked up by a policeman and taken to St Thomas's Hospital but his origins and details of his family remained a mystery. Four years later, he was adopted into a loving family in Kennington, south London, where he lived a happy childhood."

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