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It’s always an emotional moment when people who have been away from each other for a long time, finally meet again. It may sound a bit cheesy, but there is really a very deep emotion you can feel from reunions – with all those tears and hugging and words of love.

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It’s been very rewarding then (and I am NOT talking about payment) to have been a part of a reuniting recently, where a client asked us to find his wife and son, who have been estranged from him for two years. The client, who is a widower, fell in love with a local Thai girl when he was assigned to manage a local office of an international financial institution. After a few months of going out, they lived together without incident for about a two and a half years, and within that time got married and were blessed with a healthy baby boy.

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Unfortunately, when the client was called back to his home country, he was unable to bring his family with him due to some misunderstanding with immigration. He promised to come back for them and left them a sizable amount to sustain themselves and promised to keep in touch. However, when things were finally smoothed out with immigration and the client returned to Thailand to bring his family with him back home, he could not find them. He did not know his wife’s family – she never brought it up and avoided any conversation about them, so he didn’t press her on the issue. As a result he knew no one to help him find her and their son, and all their common friends did not have any idea of where she could be.

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Another unfortunate incident was that the client first approached a cheap private investigation agency, and as expected, he was simply bled out for his money. They wasted six months without finding out anything. When he finally enlisted our services, we were able to give him regular updates and soon found out that his wife and son were being held against their will by two of her older brothers, who were taking the money he was sending for themselves. When we found them, his son was sick with dysentery and his wife had lost a lot of weight. We were able to rescue the wife and free her from her brothers. It was also very fortunate that his son was soon cured after confinement in the hospital. There are really no words to describe the depth of the emotion captured as the family was reunited. And I can say that it is moments like these that make me really love my job. It’s just that being a part of something like this brought me and my staff so much fulfillment. As for the family, they have since flown back and are now living together in the client’s home country, away from his wife’s abusive siblings.

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(The story behind this post was made with the permission of the client – all names and other identifying factors have been changed for privacy and security purposes.)

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