Just 10 minutes – that is all a grieving daughter is pleading for so she can say a final goodbye to her late mother.
Tapaita Lapao’o is the woman who was captured in a heartbreaking video crying behind the gates of a managed isolation facility while reaching out to a hearse carrying her late mother.
In between heart-wrenching sobs, a few disjointed words can be heard: “Mum. Please. I cannot reach out. Hold my hand. My mother.”
She is heard apologising to her late mum: “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry … I cannot come.”
Speaking to the Herald, the distraught daughter of 80-year-old Ilaisaane Saafi said it was one of the hardest moments of her life.
“I wanted to just go and kiss her. She won’t come back and I won’t see her again. I wanted to thank her for everything she’s done for me.”
NZ Herald
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