FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Estelle Hedaya was the outspoken life of the party who loved travel and fashion. She lived on the sixth floor and quickly connected with fellow former New Yorker Linda March, an adventurous traveler who was renting out the penthouse.Nearly a month later, the two close friends are among the last of those missing in the Champlain Towers South collapse, along with Anastasia Gromova, a 24-year-old who had just been accepted to a program teaching English to students in Japan.
The young go-getter was visiting friends at the Surfside condo for one last hurrah."She always wanted to do as much as possible with her life," her father Sergiy Gromov said Monday. "It seems like she knew that it was not going to last.