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Sarah Thomas found out her father was a priest and went on to try to make contact with him.

"I鈥檇 been told he was a lecturer, but being quite inquisitive I鈥檇 always sensed something was amiss and there was information I hadn鈥檛 been told," she says. "My mother had been made to feel very fearful about revealing his identity."

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