Like a DAD TO ME
‘I PROUDLY TOLD FRIENDS I WAS HIS DAUGHTER’
JoJo Smith, 48, is from Birmingham.
I’ve always been a daddy’s girl. Even as a toddler I’d run straight into his arms as soon as he set foot in the house. But I never knew my ‘real’ dad.
At 18 months old, I was placed in foster care with David and Diane Hetherington. My birth mother was a single mum who suffered from MS (multiple sclerosis), and the debilitating condition meant she was unable to look after me by herself.
‘People how alike say we are!’
From the day I arrived in their home, in 1975, David, then 27, and Diane, 28, loved and treated me as a child of their own. They had a natural-born son but they chose me to be their daughter and
