He tried for years to join his 13-year-old daughter in the US. Now they’re finally reunited – at her deathbed in Queens
Published on: Saturday 20 July 2019
Manuel Gámez clutches the hand of his only child, her dark eyes partly open and her motionless body blanketed by intravenous lines and a breathing tube. His 13-year-old daughter, Heydi Gámez García, lies in a raised bed in a Queens, New York, pediatric hospital room.