Unchain my heart

Liverpool c.1930. 7 year old Annie is in an orphanage with her 3 year old sister, Margaret. Her 2 brothers, Thomas and John are in a boys orphanage somewhere close. Their Mum has died and their Dad would rather be drunk than look after them.
Annie spots an escape route, a gate left open by one of the nuns. She makes a run for it, turning only at the cries of Margaret, hands raised, pleading for young Annie to take her too. But Annie wouldn't be able to run as fast with Margaret in tow.........

She didn't see any of them again.

2009. Annie, now 85, gets a phone call out of the blue. It's Thomas, her brother. He's been searching for her and had almost given up hope. He desperately wants to meet up, to become family again for however many years they have left. He now lives down south. He tells her that John, on leaving the orphanage, fled to New Zealand and stayed there until he died. Margaret stayed in Liverpool until her husband died then moved south to be near Thomas. She died without forgiving Annie for leaving her at the mercy of the orphanage despite Thomas explaining that they were all just babies.....Annie wept.

This weekend Thomas is coming to Liverpool to meet with Annie, my Grandma. We're going along too.