Nearly two years after a trip to meet the woman he loved turned into an imprisonment in a Venezuelan jail, an exhausted but grateful Utah man has arrived home with his wife.
Josh Holt arrived at the Salt Lake City airport to a tearful, cheering crowd holding signs in his favourite colour, green, with messages such as: "We never gave up."
His grandmother draped an American flag around his shoulders as he exchanged long hugs with person after person while the crowd sang "The Star-Spangled Banner."
"This was the first time they actually said: 'Get to DC, he's being freed.'"
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