Tucked among the travelers at LAX are the people who are braving the Thanksgiving traffic to welcome someone home.

It's been two months since Erik Benitez dropped off his daughter Erika at college in Portland.

"I'm waiting for my daughter, my only daughter," he said. "My beautiful daughter."

With a flight tracker counting down the minutes until she lands, Benitez is excited to reunite with Erika.

After what felt like an eternity, the pair finally got to see each other.

"I haven't seen my dad in a minute," Erika said. "I haven't seen him in a while. Happy to be home and in California."

He wasn't the only dad waiting for a special arrival.

"We just love it when the kids come home," Eric Imley said. "Everybody's in town. The family is going to be together. It's just wonderful."

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