Mailman tracks down little girl who sent her late dad a letter addressed to Heaven
The pain of not having your mom or dad in your life leaves a void in the heart. It is especially difficult to lose a parent at a very young age.
A mailman who found a letter from a little girl addressed to her father in heaven decided to trace down the family and arrange for a special gift for the grieving girl.
The big-hearted mailman, known as Simon, found the letter while collecting the mail from a postbox in Leicester, England and saw that it was addressed to their dad in Heaven, Cloud 9 on June 21.
Worried that the letter would be lost without a proper address on it, Simon wanted to find the family and arrange a special surprise for the girl.
With permission from his manager, he went online to see if he could locate the family.
Posting an appeal on Facebook he wrote:
“I’m a postman in the Braunstone area; earlier today I emptied the red pillar box on Bewicke Road (junc. of Folville Avenue) and there was a letter in a child’s handwriting addressed to their dad in heaven, cloud 9. I’m trying to find the parents of the child as I would like to reach out to them and with their permission sort out a little something for the child. I myself lost my dad last year and as an adult found it hard so I can only imagine what this child is going through. Please, if anyone has any details then it would be hugely appreciated”
Simon found that the letter had been written by an eight-year-old girl named Sianna.
8-year-old Sianna from England lost her daddy when she was just four months old. It was a difficult time for her mother, Sarah Tully, who was left to raise her daughter all by herself. As time passed by, the little girl was eager to learn where her daddy was. She was looking at her friend’s fathers and couldn’t stop wondering why hers wasn’t around.
One day, her mom explained to her that she did have a daddy, but he was in heaven, looking down on her from above.
Sianna decided to send a letter to her father and addressed it to Cloud 9. She then put the letter in a postbox.
“I spoke to my manager and asked if I could try to get hold of the family to find out more about it and get it back to them.”
Sarah said she was grateful to Simon for returning the letter but added she wouldn’t open it but keep it in a special box for when Sianna gets older.
“Sianna just came into the room that evening and asked ‘where does Daddy live?’ so she could write the address to a letter she had written,” she added as per Leicestershire Live.
“I have no idea what is in it, I always say that’s between her and her dad.”
“I told her it was too late to post it at first but she started crying, so I said ‘come on then’ and we walked to the post box down the street.”
Along with the letter, Simon also brought a gift to Sianna, a beautiful father-daughter figure Sarrah put picture of on Facebook with the following caption: “The gift Simon the postman brought my daughter… this has been a very touching time for us …its been overwhelming thank u to u all x.”
Source:en.newsner.com, boreddaddy.com
