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Just saw this. Wikipedia quote:

"After numerous criticisms from the Stanley family about their (still-married) daughter ‘living in sin’ with John Dykins, and considerable pressure from Mimi—who twice contacted Liverpool’s Social Services to complain about the infant Lennon sleeping in the same bed as Julia and Dykins—she reluctantly handed the care of Lennon over to Mimi and her husband, George Smith. In July 1946, Alf Lennon (John’s father) visited Mimi’s house and took Lennon to Blackpool for a long holiday, but he was secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him. Julia and Dykins found out and followed them to Blackpool. Alf asked Julia to go with them both to New Zealand, but she refused. After a heated argument, Alf said their five-year-old child had to choose between his mother or him. He chose Alf (twice) so Julia walked away, but in the end her son (crying) followed her.

She took John back to her house and enrolled him in a local school, but after few weeks she handed him back to Mimi.”
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