This Woman Has Received Birthday Presents From Her Dead Father For 5 Years And His Final Gift Has Everyone In Tears

By Callie Byrnes,
Bailey Sellers and her late father when she was a child
Twitter / @SellersBailey

Anyone who has lost a parent before knows how incredible difficult it is to deal with, especially on holidays or special occasions that you’re used to spending with them. As Twitter user Bailey Seller found out, it never gets easy, but her father did his best to be there for her even after he passed away.

Bailey’s father died when she was 16, nearly five years ago. But before he passed away, he found a way to send her flowers every year on her birthday. But on her 21st birthday, she received her last gift from her father, along with one final message.

While the whole thing is pretty emotional, nothing got people quite like the letter Bailey’s father wrote her.

Twitter / @SellersBailey

Unsurprisingly, people got pretty emotional after reading it.

https://twitter.com/thesn0wmexican/status/934186059738488832

https://twitter.com/gutowski_brie/status/934264957771886592

Though Bailey’s pretty heartbroken over the final present, she’s lucky to have people by her side who love her.

The whole thing has me in tears and reminds me how incredibly lucky I am for the people I have in my life. And that’s something we should all try to never take for granted. Thought Catalog Logo Mark

Callie is a writer, editor, and publisher at Thought Catalog. Her debut book, ‘The Words We Left Behind,’ was released in January 2024.

Keep up with Callie on Instagram, Twitter and calliebyrnes.com

These are the “Words We Left Behind.”

These are the “Words We Left Behind.”

My favorite memories are the ones that never seem noteworthy—the ones you never tell at parties or recount to your family, the ones that don’t have a plot or a reason. There’s something in those excerpts of life, something so beautifully, achingly human.

These are the moments that matter the most.

These are the words we leave behind.

This debut collection written by Callie Byrnes is bound in a beautifully textured uncoated cover featuring gold leaf foil.

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