Message five-year-old girl had for 'hero' bus driver who noticed something 'not right' when she was walking alone

A five-year-old woman who was rescued from nan broadside of nan roadworthy by a leader autobus driver shared a heartfelt connection arsenic nan 2 reunited. 

Adaline 'Addy' Gonzalez was seen wandering a Harlem sidewalk unsocial while Luis Jimenez, 60, was connected his greeting displacement arsenic a New York MTA autobus driver successful September. 

Now nan brace person reunited, giving Addy an opportunity to definitive her gratitude to person had personification watching complete her. 

She told him: 'Thank you Luis, for being my leader and redeeming my life.' 

Addy had decided to skip schoolhouse truthful she could spell to nan pet shop and get a caller pet food aft hers had died that aforesaid day. She hadn't told her parents wherever she was going but was spotted by Jimenez who felt thing was off. 

'My small heart arsenic a begetter came connected because if I spot a kid successful nan thoroughfare successful request of help, I would want personification to thief 1 of my children aliases 1 of my grandkids,' he antecedently said. 

He had kept his oculus connected Addy done his beforehand window, earlier yet deciding to propulsion over, telephone his dispatcher and person a rider telephone 911. 

She had been reported missing by her schoolhouse aft not showing up to class, which she had nary anterior history of doing. 

Her mother, Julissa, told WABC: 'We were totally, like, scared. We didn't cognize what to think. We know, we was terrified because that's our small girl.'  

Addy had already walked 10 blocks from her schoolhouse earlier Jimenez spotted her. 

When he sewage to drawback up pinch her this week, he says he couldn't person been happier.  

'It made maine consciousness truthful good. My bosom was pumping. I couldn't hold to meet her and her parents because thing for illustration that should beryllium celebrated. She was capable to spell home,' Jimenez told WABC. 

As a token of her appreciation, Addy decided to do thing ace special.  

'I decided to sanction my caller food Luis. I was excited and I was happy and it was perfect,' she said. 

The young girl's family family besides gave Jimenez a token of their appreciation and presented him pinch a New York Jets chapeau that said 'Addy's Hero'. 

Addy's father, Cesar Gonzalez, told WABC: 'It's beautiful to meet Luis. … And convey God. Thank him. You know, [because of Jimenez] she's present pinch america today.'

The seasoned autobus driver is approaching his 26th twelvemonth arsenic an NYC transit employee, moving 6am to 4pm connected different routes. 

'Driving successful New York City, it's for illustration a cleanable day. I unfastened up that door, and it's for illustration nan world comes to me,'  he told The Art of Doing. 

He added: 'I emotion my passengers. I want to springiness them nan champion ride, nan champion time, nan champion position of nan metropolis while I get them to wherever they're going.'