Garnet was treated as the returning hero.<\/p>\n
He glowed.<\/p>\n
The end.<\/p>\n
Well.\u00a0 Not really.<\/p>\n
He had a banner with his name on it (“Welcome Back Huyan Baoer!”, in characters).\u00a0 A crowd of people who knew him “when”.\u00a0 Children who remembered him. Speeches.\u00a0 A professional movie camera trained on him.\u00a0 Gifts.\u00a0 Baby photos.\u00a0 His special Ayi was delighted to see him and ran out after him once we left for a few extra moments with him.\u00a0 The director called the finding person and they came and held him, pointed out the EXACT place and details of his finding story.\u00a0 Garnet got tears in his eyes (total joy) more than once.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My heart actually felt it would burst for him.<\/p>\n
He’s played second fiddle to the other kids’ stories for so long just by nature of a lack of information.\u00a0\u00a0 No longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We were so proud of him.<\/p>\n
I think I glowed too.<\/p>\n
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We have video and photos, current medical info and eyewitness stories for Murong Yilan, Mu Rong Jin Bo and Jia Li.\u00a0 We gave the updates to the staff (they were delighted).\u00a0 We toured the physical therapy rooms and many other class areas (no sleeping quarters) and have photos.<\/p>\n
Lisa, Garnet’s Ayi asked after Yang Yang too. I told her about both boys fishing trips.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n