A London-based actor, whose mother moved to Australia just before the pandemic, got the surprise of his life when she walked into a West London pub. The pair shared their first hug in two years, and the emotional moment that was caught on camera has since tugged at netizens’ heartstrings.
“I had no idea it was going to happen; I was in complete shock,” Ciarán Joyce, 34, told The Epoch Times. “When we hugged it felt like we were the only two people on Earth.”