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Children reunited with dad after being trapped in Georgia
Here’s at least one heart-warming story amid the violence in the Republic of Georgia. Two little girls from New Jersey have been reunited with their father after being trapped for two weeks by the fighting.
According to the Associated Press, the girls arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi after a six-hour ride in a vehicle with French Ambassador Eric Fournier. They were greeted with McDonald’s Happy Meals and cake.
Fournier said in a telephone interview that the girls, 7-year-old Ashley and 3-year-old Sophia Evans, got through a checkpoint in the town of Gori after getting permission to keep traveling from a Russian general.
The girls’ father, Joseph Evans, said they’ll be back home in Howell — and reunited with their mother — within a few days.
The girls were left to visit with their grandparents in Georgia in June and the grandmother was supposed to bring them back Aug. 26, but then the fighting erupted and their passage in the country was cut off.
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