Experiencing loss comes with its own trials and traumas to navigate no matter a personโs age. Add in a childโs inexperience and the need to explain such a concept, and the whole experience can be very taxing. But one mailman helped a young girl when he brought some light into her heartwarming routine of writing a letter to heaven to converse with her late father.
A Leicester, England mailman, who did not share his name, discovered a letter penned by a child addressed to heaven, where she understood her father to be. The incident touched him so much, he shared the story with the world and one young, hopeful girl has enchanted the globe.
A mailman discovers a letter addressed to heaven for a girlโs late father
โEarlier today,โ the mailman shared, โI emptied the red pillar box on Bewicke Road (junc. of Folville Avenue) and there was a letter in a childโs handwriting addressed to their dad in heaven, cloud 9.โ
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โIโm trying to find the parents of the child,โ he explained in the June 21 post, โas I would like to reach out to them and with their permission sort out a little something for the child.โ Indeed, he did, as mailman and family were able to connect thanks to his very special find.
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Jump now to the household of Sarah Tully, whose Facebook suddenly became flooded with tags pointing her to the mailmanโs post – about her very own daughterโs letter to heaven. โMy phone was pinging,โ Tully recalled. โI opened Facebook and there it was. I was so shocked, I said to my older daughter, โOh my God, thatโs Siannaโs letter.โโ
Siannaโs father died when she was four months old, though her family keeps photos of him everywhere so she always knows who her father was. Ever since she became able to write, sheโs written letters to her father on special occasions like holidays and his birthday, addressing each to heaven where her mother told Sianna he lives now. โSheโs really just getting to understand it all. She was so young,โ Tully shared.
For the mailman, this was something personal he could relate to, as he himself lost his father, โand as an adult found it so hard so I can only imagine what this child is going through.โ How do you explain loss to a child?