Drama

Perriello told BuzzFeed News, “There was some serious drama on each leg of the trip, as there should have been under the circumstances, but we worked with officials and some angels at the airlines to make sure Maya got home safely to her grandmother’s care.”

Kind Soul

Perriello had been very kind to have agreed upon taking Maya along with him to the United States. And the best part was that he said, “One of the happier moments in my life was seeing Maya run into her grandmother’s arms.”

A Secret

But there was one thing that neither Zainab nor Maya knew about Perriello. The man had to leave the airport’s arrival area to make sure that Maya meets her grandmother. And after Maya was in her grandmother’s arms, Perriello went back inside the airport, and then he suffered.. 

Loss

After Perriello went inside the airport, he knew he would have to go through security checks yet again. And the process is time-consuming, because of which, he ended up missing his flight. He knew he would have to face a delay, but he went ahead and knew that his priority was Maya at the time. 

Sorry

“That really dampened my heart. It was horrible – I didn’t realize,” Zainab told the Huffington Post when she came to know about the truth that Perriello could not make it to his grandmother’s funeral even though he had been to the airport only for this purpose.

Twitter

Maya took the whole story to twitter after she came to know the whole truth. “My mom has been trying to find this man for 15 years – we never got his name or anything,” she tweeted. “My mom emailed him, and this man remembered everything. He said he never forgot about me or the songs he was [trying] to sing in Krio… He had told his family about it and everything.”