“I’m walking by the water’s edge with my friend and I see what looks like a photograph in the water,” Nancy Lewis told the outlet of the moment she saw the paper floating in the Long Island Sound off Compo Beach Monday.
Randi Marcucio lost her home in a flood on Sunday. WVIT
Lewis fished the photo out of the water, and realized it was a sonogram with the name “Marcucio, Randi” printed across the top.
She googled the name, and saw a post from NBC Connecticut Today anchor Heidi Voight about Marcucio’s home.
Randi Marcucio sonogram from three years ago was found floating in the Long Island Sound by a stranger. WVIT
Lewis reached out to Voight, and went up to Oxford on Wednesday to present Marcucio with the rescued sonogram.
“My heart just broke, and just then reading her story, and that’s why I reached out,” Lewis explained of her determination to return the scan to its rightful owner.
Lewis and Marcucio, an emergency room nurse, shared an emotional hug when they came face-to-face.
Marcucio explained that the sonogram was of her son, Rhylee, who is now 3.
“I saw the devastation and read your story,” Lewis told her.
Randi Marcucio with her son were able to escape their house before it collapsed. WVIT
“A single mom, emergency room nurse, I figured you were somebody who’s always caring for other people. And I just wanted to see if there was anything that I could do for you. I mean — apart from this little sonogram that I found.”
Marcucio’s dad, Carl Marcucio, said he believed Lewis found the sonogram through some kind of divine intervention.
“For her to have been out at that beach, at that time, to see something like that, to think it wasn’t just a piece of garbage, pick it up, follow through – thank you so much – it’s a story in itself,” he said.
“And it allows me to think that there is something greater than us. That has something to do with what goes on with these things.”
Marcucio and Nancy Lewis shared an emotional hug when they met on Wednesday. WVIT
While she works to rebuild what she lost, Marcucio said she is focusing on the luck she has found along the way.
“Rhylee and I are alive. Several people are not. So, you know, maybe to honor those people who can’t move forward, Rhylee and I could just work on thriving, because we survived,” she told NBC.
“So now it’s time to thrive for the people that can’t and their families. You know, this is the start. This is the middle. And we’ll finish out with a good long life in the end.”
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