A Daughter's Chance Encounter With Father She Never Met

[SoCalDem]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodResourceCenter/womans-chance-encounter-father-met/story?id=11554475


After a 41-Year Separation, A Nurse Meets Her Father At A Hospital

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By RAY SANCHEZ
Sept. 3, 2010

A nurse was reunited with the father she had never met after a chance bedside encounter at a New York hospital for the terminally ill.

Wanda Rodriguez, 41, a head nurse at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, was working her usual late shift last week when she overheard a doctor talking on the phone about a new admission. The patient's name, Victor Peraza, sounded familiar.

"I froze for a second," Rodriguez said. "That's my father's name."

Born in the Bronx, Rodriguez said her parents separated while she was still an infant. She never heard from him again. She walked over to the patient's room.

"I thought if he's my complexion, if he has green eyes, he could be my dad," she recalled. "I go in and I look at him and he looks right at me. He's dark and he has light eyes. I thought, "Oh my god, I think this is him."

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[Swamp Rat]

1. Lovely story

Thanks for posting it.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I love "It's never too late" stories.

[notadmblnd]

3. Yeah, lovely story.

When they're laying on their backs from illness or they're locked up in prison, then they regret being bad fathers.

All I can say is that she is a better woman than me. I would not have had that kind of reaction if I were to meet my father who till this day hides out in Texas somewhere. Am I bitter about it? Hell yes I am.

[crikkett]

4. I met my birth mother after decades of separation

her story is that she was threatened with violence if she tried to contact us. Closer to the truth was that she'd be met with scorn and hostility - but it was still enough to keep her away.

She's suffered a pathetic life. At the end of it I realized I could forgive her.

The weird part was how I recognized her when I didn't think I would.

[Roon]

5. I met my natural father when I was 16..he left when i was 2

We had no problem finding each other at the restaurant.