After about an hour, the couple reunited at their hotel, both of them OK. They left Boston Tuesday morning and returned to Austin, with every hope of getting back to life as normal with their two girls, ages 8 and 11.

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"I'm just so happy that they are OK, but I'm sad about the hotel, " Karen Jean-Gilles said.

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Sitting at breakfast Wednesday at a New York hotel restaurant, Lattimore said he was OK with his new identity.

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