This was the best gift Joyce Curtis can receive. The woman from Glasgow, Scotland, thought her son was dead because she hadn’t seen or heard from him since 2010 – but that all changed this Christmas.
On December 19, Joyce received a call telling her this Nicholas He was alive and in a hospital in the south of France. “I can’t believe. I thought with Covid-19 and everything, he was dead. I suffered for him. When I got the call, I was in shock. All I did was cry all day.”He said, citing daily Mail🇧🇷
“It just made Christmas for me, especially since my husband died in June. It’s like this movie, Miracle in Manhattan. It’s like a miracle. I resigned myself because he died. I really thought about it and I think everyone thought the same thing.”, He said. Later FacebookJoyce added: “I never gave up on my son”you read.
But in the end what happened?
Nicholas left his hometown in the mid-2000s to travel to Europe after losing his job as a carpenter. He told his mother he was moving around, and Joyce believed his son had spent some time living in poverty on the streets of Paris.
This mother decided to report him missing in 2009, because she hadn’t heard from her son “in years.” A year later, Joyce was contacted by the British Consulate in Paris and informed that Nicholas had been taken to a hospital in France. She and her husband made a trip to visit him, but this would be the last time she saw or spoke of him for more than a decade.
“I received a letter in 2010 saying that Nicolas was in a hospital in France. He had been missing for some time. 🇧🇷 My husband and I went to visit him and it was really nice to see him.“, He said.
“We were bringing him home, but for some reason, I don’t know why, he disappeared again. They said he was going to be put on a plane. I was waiting for him in Glasgow. I was working at Southern General Hospital at the time. I was waiting for him to come home and there was no trace.” for him “.He remembers.
“When I went to visit him in France, I bought him some shoes and stuff so he could get clothes to go home. I was waiting for him at work, but he never came home. I remember it was raining a lot that day. I called all the airports to see if he was He had boarded the plane, but nothing. We never heard anything again. That was the last I heard from him until Monday.”He said.
Joyce receives word that her son is alive when the British Consulate contacts her to alert them that he has been transferred to a French hospital for the second time. “I spoke to him on the phone. He looks healthy. I asked him, ‘Are you coming home Nicky?’ And he said, ‘Yeah. I can’t imagine what he’s been through. I just need to get him home.’He said.
Nicholas intends to return home, but Joyce wants to travel to France to see him. “I kept my expectations low until I got home. I hope I can go to France with my daughter before then to see him.”confirmed.
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