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Saving a Cuban Boy Changed my Life
The fisherman who plucked a Cuban boy from the sea - and started an international row.
We meet the fisherman who plucked a six year old Cuban boy from the ocean - and started an international political incident. It started on 25 November 1999, when Donato Dalrymple and his cousin were on a fishing trip off Fort Lauderdale in the Florida Straits. They saw what they thought at first was a doll tied to a car tyre inner tube floating in the water. But then Donato thought differently:
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