Just in Time

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Family Located Just in Time
We work fast. But, for whatever reason, this case felt like it had to be solved immediately. On the face of things, it wasn’t an urgent matter: a woman looking for the family of her father who died a month before she was born, 55 years earlier. She had never known anyone on her paternal side. Had her father had siblings? Had they had children?
We followed the family’s trail from Queens to Boston to Detroit to Richmond, then to Miami. We discovered that our client’s father had had one sibling, a sister, now deceased. The sister had had a son. He was living.
We located our client’s first cousin Manuel. To the delight of both (and to us), we introduced them to each other.
The email from our client arrived a month later:
“I wanted to let you know that Manuel passed away on Friday. I spoke with him again on the evening before his operation. He went into surgery and never regained consciousness.
“I’m so grateful for the time I had with him. I can’t help but ponder about the timing... If it had not been for you, I would not have found him in time.”