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Sometimes we find some things that reminds us of someone that we’ve lost and this mother still holds on to messages left behind by her late daughter.
A Japanese mother lost her 5-year-old daughter in the tsunami when the disaster hit Watari, Japan, back on 11 March 2011. Nearly a decade later, she found a last message from her daughter.
The mother named Hiromi Takahashi found her late daughter, Hinano’s phone with a last message on it that said, “I love you, Mommy.”
“On my birthday, let’s put some candles on a cake and eat it.”
Hiromi recalled that the old cell phone was given to her daughter as a toy and decided to look through the phone and found the messages.
Hinano would type up a message from time to time, sometimes with Hiromi’s help and the messages ranged from “Can you wake me up at 5? I’d love some fried eggs for breakfast” — to message for future plans — like “Let’s go play in a garden” and “Let’s go to an onsen hot spring.”
Some of the messages were unfinished because she fell asleep before finishing them.
Hinano was engulfed by the tsunami along with seven other children and a nursey worker while riding on a nursery bus.
She was described as a shy girl and was a kind kid who would say “It’s too cute for me to eat” to a character bento lunch and even used her first prayer to ask for her mom’s happiness during New Year at the shrine.
“These all are proof she was once alive,” Hiromi teared up as she talked about the messages. “I want to live such a full life that when I meet my daughter in heaven, I can say to her, ‘I was happy.’”
Rest in peace, Hinano.
Info via AsiaOne
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