A miraculous reunion

By Christy Swift, Highlands Today

LAKE PLACID- An elderly Hispanic homeless man who was admitted to the Florida Hospital’s Lake Placid campus weeks ago finally has a place to go home to.

On Saturday, Sebastian Ovalle Espinosa was reunited with his daughter, Juana Ovalle Garcia, after going missing 35 years ago.

It’s a once-in-a lifetime-story, said hospital administrator Anthony Stahl.

“We knew him as Don Jose,” Stahl said. “We didn’t know who he was. There were no documents. There was some mystery around him.”

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[Photo: Christy Swift for Highlands Today]

 

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