A video is going viral this week showing an 84 year-old father reunite with his 53 year-old son, who has Down’s syndrome.
Matt Cobrink, 53, was separated from his 88 year-old father Malcolm for the first time in 25 years when he flew from their Los Angeles home to New York to meet Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees, his favorite baseball player. They had not been separated since 1993, when Matt’s mother died.
Matt’s sister Marcy, 56, filmed the reunion on her cellphone, and it’s melting the hearts of people all over the world.
“I knew that my brother and my father are so closely attached, and I knew that after five days my brother was going to really be missing my father,” Marcy said. “They’re never separated for five days!”
She was not surprised by her brother’s reaction:
I expect that kind of reaction from him. Sometimes I won’t see him for a few days, and then I’ll go to his house or my dad will bring him over here, and he will kiss me like 20 times. He’s just really very loving and happy to see everybody! People all over the world were sending me pictures of their children with Down Syndrome, telling me that it made them cry, that they’re so happy to see such a long, loving relationship between my father and my brother.
It gives them hope for their children or they have a cousin who has Down Syndrome. And that it’s so nice to see something that’s happy instead of things that are negative.
We just want to share the love. We want to let people know that it’s really not Down Syndrome, we call it “Up Syndrome,” because my brother has brought so much love into everybody’s life that he comes in contact with. It’s just really remarkable.
Check out the emotional video below!
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