A NEW YORK MAN who has lived on the streets for almost a year – and had lost contact with his daughter for over a decade – has been reunited with his girl after opening a Twitter account on a donated mobile phone.
Daniel Morales, 58, had been homeless since losing his job last year – and having ultimately been evicted from his Harlem home as a result of his resulting financial turmoil.
He had not spoken to his daughter Sarah, now 27, since 2000 when he and his wife, then living in Puerto Rico, split up – and when his wife brought Sarah to California to live with him, the BBC reports.
Morales had been living in a homeless shelter since his eviction last year, and had been given a prepaid mobile phone as part of a project to share the life of a homeless person with the rest of the world.
After three weeks of usage on his @putodanny account, he told his 3,000-or-so followers about his family situation – and told them he was looking for his daughter.
Hi thi is to let yo people know that in lookin eoq my daughter her name is sarah m rivera
He later posted photographs of his daughter, and a contact phone number for his homeless shelter – and Sarah, after having been given the details, called him the very next day.
“”There’s a saying in Spanish, La sangre llama. It means you know by instinct that someone is your family,” Sarah – a mother of two – told the NY Daily News.
“I’ve been trying for years to find my father… All these years I looked for him, and somehow he found me.”
Being introduced to the grandchildren he didn’t know he had, Morales said of Nevaeh, 4: “She looks like a Morales. She looks like my family.”
He intends to continue tweeting.
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