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Since then, she’s seen tens of thousands of babies come through the unit,The Mercury Newsreports, but never forgot about him, even when she came face-to-face with him as an adult at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California.
Last month, according to the newspaper, Wong was at work when she saw a second-year pediatric resident in blue scrubs near one of the incubators. She asked him who he was.
When the doctor told her his name, it “sounded very familiar,” she toldThe Mercury News.
When she asked him if his dad was a police officer, their special connection immediately became clear.
“There was a big silence,’’ she said, “and then he asked if I was Vilma.’’
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Seminatore told the news outlet that “meeting Vilma was a surreal experience.”
He added: “She cares deeply for her patients, to the point that she was able to remember a patient’s name almost three decades later.”
After the hospitalposted their reunion story on Facebook, it was shared over 4,000 times.
“As a nurse,’’ Wong told the newspaper about seeing Seminatore again, “it’s kind of like your reward.’’
source: people.com
