TORONTO STAR
He went to Cuba on vacation. He came back with a mission: reunite a father and daughter separated for 30 years

Thanks to the kindness of a Toronto man, a woman has been reunited with the father she barely knew following an anguishing, 30-year separation.

Cuban-native Abelino Corrales met the love of his life — a Polish woman named Danuta Tarnawa — at a textile factory in communist-ruled former Czechoslovakia around 1985, while he was was there on a four-year work contract.

A year later, Tarnawa gave birth to their daughter; they named her Karolina.

Karolina was just two years old when Corrales, a mechanic, was forced to return home to Cuba. He was in Czechoslovakia on a work contract between the two communist-ruled countries, and it had expired.

Heartbroken, Corrales returned to Cuba and Tarnawa took Karolina back to Poland, where she received a cold reception from her family, who did not approve of a child out of wedlock.

Still, the couple remained deeply in love and communicated through secret letters transmitted by a friend.

But after 14 years of communication, the letters to Corrales abruptly stopped.

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