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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

‘Come, my princess’ — Venezuelan family, thanks to asylum, reunited in Chicago after 5 years apart

Frank Sandoval hugs his 21-year-old daughter Massiel Sandoval as his wife Carolina Alemán watches Friday near the American Airlines baggage claim at O’Hare Airport. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Sun-Times)
Frank Sandoval thought he was the luckiest man in the world as he stood, just before 2 a.m. Friday, at O’Hare Airport’s baggage claim, where he anxiously kept checking his phone for messages from his wife and daughter.

They’d spent 24 hours traveling from South America. And Sandoval, of Lockport, couldn’t wait to see them.

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