You gotta love it. Donato says the photos weren't doctored, and that Lazaro and Marisleysis agree.
>>The day before, Dalrymple says, during a van ride to Andrews Air Force Base with the Gonzalez family, he told Marisleysis that she should back off her heated claim that a widely publicized photo of Elian reunited with his father had been doctored. "Let's face the facts," he says he told her. "Elian is smiling in all the pictures they're releasing. It's not doctored."
Marisleysis and Lazaro, her father, tersely agreed, he says. "Maybe if somebody asked her about it in a calm way, she'd correct it," he says. "But, you know, there's pride there and reporters screaming at her and . . . "
He halts in mid-sentence, a cloud crossing his face. One misstatement and he's back to cleaning houses full time. Reinvention is dicey business. "God, I really hope the family doesn't flag me for talking about this and get annoyed," he says.<<
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