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13th May 2015
04:58pm BST
Explaining the significance of the card, Chris explained:
‘My father passed away from Liver/Lung cancer in 1999 after battling it for a year and a half. 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. It caught me totally off guard and made me so very happy. It felt like he was still there, holding something I'd never seen before that he touched, and signed himself, it was if he had just done it yesterday.
‘[It's] been so long that I've been just kind of used to the idea that he's been gone. I've lived longer w/out him than I did with him. So to have these little moments where he kind of pops back into my life again brings everything back in a rush and it's incredible. I cried, but I did because I was so incredibly happy.’
Chris’ dad wrote the card, asking his mother to hold onto it and save it for him.
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