Family Reunion

My expat father lost contact with his wife and young daughter after their marriage ended in East Africa in the 1950s. He returned to England and married my mother. As his second family, we emigrated to Perth, Australia, in 1968. My father in those days kept his first family secret, except from my mother. In the mid-1980s, one evening my mother went to her ladies' public speaking club, visiting a sister club in the hills near Perth. She listened with increasing shock and disbelief to a talk by a lady about her younger days, as the circumstances exactly matched what she knew of my father's first marriage. It was indeed the same woman. With her second husband she had returned to Scotland, and thence they had emigrated to Perth too. The daughter had remained in Scotland. Father and daughter were soon happily reunited and in 1986 I travelled from Perth (WA) to Scotland to meet the half-sister I'd never have known but for this coincidence. (I've since settled back in the UK).