Two years later, Mirlana Morris remembers her son Donny — and the smile that lit up the world
Most mothers anticipate a reunion with their child during a winter visit to Israel, when he returns for Pesach, or for some, at the end of the year. But for Mirlana Morris, this airport goodbye was the last time she would ever see her son Donny.
“A picture popped up on my phone from when we took him to the airport, the last day I ever saw him,” Mirlana shares, “and he’s walking away from us. All you see is his back and a little wheelie.
“And it’s so crazy, the captions with the choice of words we used back then and how much meaning they have now, because for that picture I wrote ‘Goodbyes are never easy.’ ”
It was the hardest goodbye she ever had to say.
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