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# Paula Beer and Sharon Thomas
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/long-lost-family/episode/paula-beer-and-sharon-thomas-jkw0ht/
- Published: 2026-03-09T16:30:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-15T07:30:30.000Z
- Description: A mother searches for her son; a sister looks for the brother her mother had to give up.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Long Lost Family, Season 14, Episode 2, #ZZZ_Episode_a2173ccc-466e-4e57-9b07-c423ea3e947b, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_0fca0ee5-cc86-4f98-9bd3-1195cabb1c8d, #v1.16

Paula Beer was 17 when she secretly gave birth and was forced to give her son up for adoption. Nearly 60 years later, she still remembers their painful goodbye. Sharon Thomas later discovered she had a younger brother, a family secret after her mother Margaret, gave up a second child for adoption and died shortly after. Sharon is now desperate to find him.