A Scottish woman is celebrating a Christmas miracle after learning that her son, whom she believed to be dead for over a decade, is still alive and may be coming home soon.
“I can’t believe it,” Joyce Curtis, who lives in Glasgow, told The Herald newspaper. “I thought with COVID and everything that happened, I thought he was dead. I felt sorry for him.”
“When I got the call to say he was alive, I was just in shock,” he continued, saying he cried all day after hearing the news. “Then of course I called my mom and I called my brother and I called my daughter to tell them.”
“Everybody’s asking about him now. Nikky’s a good guy. The feeling is I still can’t believe it.”
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Curtis filed a missing person report in 2009 after not hearing from her son, Nicholas, for some time: He had traveled to Europe to look for work, and she had last heard that he was hitchhiking through Spain and France.
Glasgow, Scotland, mother Joyce Curtis with a photo of her son Nicholas, who was recently found in France.
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The British Consulate in Paris contacted the Curtis family in 2010 to inform them that their son was in hospital. The couple flew to France to visit him, the last time they would see him until 2022.
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Curtis believed it was clear his son had spent time “living rough” on the streets of Paris.
A mother, who assumed her son was dead after he went missing more than a decade ago, celebrated a “miracle” after discovering he is alive and well.
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After that, Nicholas just “disappeared again”, despite the fact that the consulate said it would put him on a flight back to the UK.
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“I was expecting him at home in Glasgow at a certain time,” Curtis explained. “He worked at the Southern General Hospital at the time. She was waiting for him when he came home and there was no sign.”
Joyce Curtis believed her son Nicholas had passed away because she had not seen or heard from him since 2010.
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Curtis said she called every airport to see if her son had gotten on a flight, but got no confirmation and didn’t hear anything else for more than 10 years, until Christmas week 2022.
Curtis lost her husband in June this year and was resigned to the thought that her son was gone too when she received a call from the British consulate in Paris to learn that her son had been hospitalized again.
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“It’s like that movie ‘Miracle on 34th Street.’ It’s like a miracle,” she said.
She has begun to make arrangements for his return, but does not want to get her hopes up until he returns to Scotland. She even hopes to visit Paris, so she can see him one more time before he returns.
