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CUBAN FAMILY REUNITED - American dream comes true for Cuban family

They had never been apart, this close family of four from Matanzas, Cuba. Everything they did, they did it together. And yet there they were, set to untie the knot, three of them going away, one staying home.

None of them wanted things to come to this, but all agreed it was something that had to be. Two daughters were about to lose their mother, perhaps forever. And a husband was saying goodbye to his wife of two decades. He loved her as passionately as he had when they first married.

The two adults convinced themselves they were doing it for the children. Yet the kids only knew that they were losing their friends, aunts, uncles and grandparents.

Could they ever become a family again? As the airplane prepared to board its passengers, they realized there was no certainty of that ever happening. As all shed tears, they shared one last hug ...