<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420157" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Redemption</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thought that he would die alone<br>when he entered hospice care.<br>Folks wind up in Calvary<br>who haven’t got a prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long estranged from his first wife <br>And the two children that she bore him.<br>He only sought a refuge <br>from pain and death before him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nurse on duty saw his name<br>And hope combined with fear.<br>Could this be her father that was lost? <br>Could fate have brought him here? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She asked the patient if he had<br>some family about.<br>He mentioned his two daughters’ names<br>“-but they must be grown up now.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I’m Wanda, I’m your daughter.”<br>She said, choking back her tears.<br>He begged for her forgiveness<br>For being gone for all those years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course he’d missed her wedding day<br>and never held her child.<br>He’d missed so many Father’s Days.<br>Still, she made him proud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps it was a twist of fate<br>Perhaps the Angels’ plan<br>That when this man had breathed his last<br>He held his daughter’s hand.<br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The story of the reunion of Wanda Rodriquez, hospice nurse with her estranged father, Victor Peraza, at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420157" data-title="Redemption de John F. McCullagh" data-description="He thought that he would die alone when he entered hospice care. Folks wind up in Calvary who haven’t got a prayer. Long estranged from his first wife And the two children that she bore him. He only sought a refuge from pain and death before ..."></div> </div> </div>

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