Former refugee Ayda Zugay's decade-long quest to find and thank the woman who gave her $100 and a welcoming message in 1999 has ended. Zugay reunited on Zoom with the mystery woman, Tracy Peck, a day after CNN published a story about her search.
Tracy Peck was running errands Saturday when she got a series of texts and calls that shocked her -- first from her tennis coach, then from her best friend.At first, Peck brushed it aside. She was driving and had no idea what they were talking about. Then she pulled over and opened the link they'd sent.
Peck had no idea then how much that envelope would come to mean to both girls. And until she read the CNN story Saturday, Peck says she had no idea that one of the sisters, Ayda Zugay, had been searching for her for nearly a decade. Zugay remembered the woman who sat next to her and her sister had been carrying a tennis racket and talked about playing in Paris. And she knew she could never forget the beautiful act of generosity welcoming her and her sister to the United States. She was excited so many more people now knew the story, too -- and especially thrilled to see many people tweeting that they wanted to be more like Tracy.
That coach, Susan Allen, also recognized Peck's handwriting. But even more than that, the story made sense. Johnson kept a scrapbook documenting the trip. One page featured a team photo. Another included a receipt from a travel agency with the group's itinerary. The second leg of their return journey was a flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis on May 31, 1999 -- the same date and route Zugay recalled flying.
"Hello beautiful ladies!" Peck cried gleefully as the Zoom call began. Zugay noticed she was wearing dangly earrings, just like she had been the day they met on the plane.A page from Johnson's scrapbook shows the receipt and photos of the tennis tour group as they prepared to leave Minneapolis in May 1999.Peck told the sisters how vividly she remembered what it felt like when she met them.
She admitted she'd been nervous about the Zoom at first, then realized that suddenly she was feeling stronger.
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