The Star Ledger
Erin O'Neill
December 25, 2013
Leslie Ann Ruggiero, a pediatric nurse at Ocean Medical Center in Brick, unknowingly walks right by her son (dressed as Santa) Army specialist Travis Ruggiero, 29, of Brick who was deployed in Afghanistan for 6-7 months but returned home to surprise his mom. 12/24/13 (Andrew Mills/The Star-Ledger)
When Leslie Ann Ruggiero unsealed a red envelope this morning she thought contained a card from the Santa Claus sitting on a bench behind her, she put her hand over her mouth and started to cry.
“It’s my baby,” she said, holding a postcard with a handwritten message from her son, a U.S. Army specialist who wasn’t supposed to return from his deployment in Afghanistan until March.
As Ruggiero clutched the postcard, she didn’t notice the man dressed as Santa Claus stand up and take off his hat, round glasses and white beard.
When she turned around, her son Travis, still donning the red suit and black boots, hugged his mother, picked her up and spun her around.
Then, as only a mother would, Ruggiero pushed her hand against her son’s belly to ensure the extra girth was just padding.
“The best Christmas present ever,” said Ruggiero, a nurse at Ocean Medical Center in Brick, where her son surprised her on Christmas Eve.
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