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PHOTOS: Joy and Tears at Dulles Airport
Emotional images of families reuniting as Covid restrictions ease
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An overdue reunion.
Beatriz and her two daughters embrace Beatriz’s mother and father, arriving from Bolivia.
Chanelle and her children picking up her husband (and their dad), Charles, who is returning from Germany.
Karen waiting for grandson Matthew, who’s coming from NYC.
A balloon-filled greeting.
Shafiq hugs his mother, who is meeting her grandchild for the first time. She and Shafiq’s grandfather are traveling from Austria.
The McEwans await their daughter (and sister), flying in from boarding school in England.
This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Washingtonian.
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