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This guy’s story about his dad’s rubber ducks is making people an emotional wreck

Losing a loved one is probably one of the most difficult challenges a person has to endure in a lifetime. It hits you hard when you wake up and realize that someone who was once alive, breathing the same air as you are, is simply gone. All you’re left with are the memories you’ve had with them — fragments of what used to be.

Twitter user Connor West shared an emotional story of his late dad’s obsession with rubber ducks as it used to be his “version of good luck”. It reminded everyone how sometimes the little things that our loved ones left behind have the biggest impact in our lives.

According to The Independent, Connor’s dad was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 and had to go on long walks around their town in New Jersey as part of his treatment. During his walks, his dad would often find rubber ducks and bring them home.

The rubber ducks soon became a part of their family where Connor’s dad would hid them or leave them on desks for good luck. Connor said they would even kiss the butt of the rubber ducks for good luck.

Four years after his father’s demise, Connor thought they found all the little rubber ducks his dad had hidden. To his surprise, he recently found one in the back seat cupholder of his car that he has not opened for quite some time.

Connor said that when he moved to college and the family house was sold a year after his father died in 2014, he took with him two of the ducks his dad has found and thought that his mother had taken the other.

People on Twitter got emotional and were moved by Connor’s story.

Some are also sharing stories about keeping rubber ducks with them or finding things that their loved ones have left behind and how it brought back memories.

Connor thanked everyone for the positive responses and outpouring support his tweet has gotten. He said he was grateful for all the people who shared their stories and thoughts with him and how he was able to share how great his dad was. He encouraged everyone to do a new act of kindness for someone and “Be someone’s rubber duck.”

Who knew rubber ducks could make us cry this much?

 


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