So here is what happened, A father, who passed away in 1999 from Lung cancer took it upon himself to prepare a card for his 30th birthday while his mum held the card until he was 30!
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"My father passed away from liver/lung cancer in 1999 after battling it for a year and a half,”On Reddit. “After so much chemo and medication, he just couldn't take that quality of life anymore and realized it was his time to go. I assume at that point he bought cards for my brother and I's milestone birthdays.”
ChrisBenRoy's mother saved the card for the past 16 years and gave it to him on his birthday. She did the same for his 13th, 20th, 21st, and 25th birthdays, and on the day he got his driver's license. Since it had been five years since his last card, ChrisBenRoy had nearly forgotten about the tradition and seeing the card brought the Redditor to tears, he wrote.
“It caught me totally off guard and made me so very happy,” he wrote on Reddit. “It felt like he was still there, holding something I'd never seen before that he touched, and signed himself, it was [as] if he had just done it yesterday."
There was an immediate outpouring of support from Reddit. Numerous users told ChrisBenRoy how much the card affected them, with some even sharing their own stories of late parents leaving behind mementos for their children.
Even though the signature was short, ChrisBenRoy is still touched and guesses that his father was very sick at the time he wrote it and may not have been able to manage much else.
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