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LI girl, stuck in Haiti after quake, returns home

Quick ReadTwo Elmont parents have been reunited with their 2-year-old daughter after the child was stuck in Haiti for weeks.

Brianna Dacius, 2, returned home to her parents

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Brianna Dacius, 2, returned home to her parents in Elmont about two months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake stranded her in Haiti. (March 13, 2010)

She's finally back home.

Two-year-old Brianna Dacius has been reunited with her Elmont parents after the child was stuck in Haiti for weeks after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in January.

Brianna, who had been living with her grandmother in Port-au-Prince since July, had an emotional reunion Friday night with her parents at Kennedy Airport.

Saturday morning, Brianna and her parents...

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