February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
The flight had taken only a few hours, but the journey had taken seemingly for ever.
“It’s great, brilliant to be back, but the heat is killing me. It was raining over there,” Chris Kane said minutes after his arrival. “You forget little things, but I’ll readjust no problem.”
Mimma Kane said she had grown nervous waiting for Chris in the JFK terminal building. She had arrived bout half and hour before the flight’s scheduled arrival accompanied by her brother Peter.
The flight landed early, but there was no immediate sign of Chris among the emerging passengers.
“Everybody was coming out but him,” Mimma said.
But when her husband finally came into view, she found the sense of relief almost overwhelming.
“I think the fact that I was with Chris in Ireland recently helped,” she said. “As a result, I did not have all my emotions bottled up and I could focus on just seeing him and being with him. It was such a relief.”
The Kanes quickly departed Kennedy. Their home is not far from the airport.
Mimma had stocked the kitchen with some of her husband’s favorite Irish foods. But he very quickly let it be known that he was well and truly back in New York.
“He wanted sushi for his lunch,” Mimma said, laughing.
She said that she and her husband, who were married in March 2001, would now take a few days to get settled and used to being together again.
“It’s like starting over as a newly married couple,” she said. “Now we will be working toward our future.”
The Kanes’ forced separation was rooted in a visit to Ireland in May 2003. Chris had returned home alone for a funeral when his sister’s fianc