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A Womans Purse Was Stolen Along With Her Dead Sons Pictures. Then Something Extraordinary Happened!
June 8, 2014
Patricia Harris discovered that her purse had been stolen while returning home with her children on Friday afternoon. Along with her credit cards and money, her purse contained a memory card containing the priceless photos of her dead baby son Cole, which the mother just couldnt bear. The 500 images of Cole were the only copies she had.
So Patricia decided to do something about it. She and her fiancé Michael began taping up fliers all around their neighborhood with a picture of Cole begging the thief to return the memory card. As the distressed mother put it:
And then I just lost it. I wrote a note with black crayon that said keep the tablet and phone but please return the memory card. It has pictures of my son. He died on February 22. He was two and a half months old.
And it worked. On the following Monday, while at work, Patricia got a text from her fiancé telling her the memory card had been returned to the car. The thief, however, kept the rest and is still at large.
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Michigander_Life
(549 posts)Both restore faith in humanity and make me wonder what all the fuss is about when we lock up thieves. Yeah, non-violent offender... But with a very REAL victim.
JI7
(89,240 posts)but not totally heartless and cold as to ignore request to return memory stick.
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)Compared to how often someone steals something that is sentimentally irreplaceable and doesn't return it?
JI7
(89,240 posts)but i know there are some who are desperate .
NuttyFluffers
(6,811 posts)perhaps there will be a day for enough empathy to do a national minimum income to prevent desperate destitution, too.