Girl Gives Mute Boy a Teddy Bear, 20 Years Later She Finds the Same Toy At Her Doorstep — Story of the Day
Emma was just six years old and she had no idea that her one act of kindness would transform a little grieving boy’s life forever.
When Emma Stockton was two, her Uncle Harvey brought her back a teddy bear for Christmas from one of his trips to Europe. It was the most beautiful, cuddliest teddy in the world, and Emma fell in love with him instantly.
For the next four years, Mr. Snuggles (that was the teddy’s name) went wherever Emma went, even to school, and he slept in her arms every night. No one ever imagined that Emma would ever give away Mr. Snuggles, but she did. It would be 20 years before she saw him again.
Emma was stunned when she saw Mr. Snuggles outside her door | Source: Shutterstock.com
It all happened because her brother Garret, who was eight, got very sick and the doctor said he had to go to the hospital and have his tonsils out. Emma was worried because she sort of loved Garret even though he teased her a lot, but mom said it was no big deal.
Garret would go into the hospital one day and come out the next. “Can we go visit?” asked Emma, and mom said that they could. It was very exciting because Emma had never been to a hospital before.
Garret was lying in a big bed, in a green room, and there was another bed there with another boy. Emma hugged Garret and made him hug Mr. Snuggles too, then she asked, “Who’s that boy?”
“I don’t know,” Garret said. “I don’t think he talks at all. The nurses come but he won’t look at them. He just cries all the time.”
Emma got the teddy bear the Christmas she turned two | Source: Unsplash
Emma was curious, so while Garret was talking to mom and dad she slipped over to the other side of the room and peeked behind the curtain to take a look at the boy who didn’t talk.
He looked OK to Emma. He had big sad eyes, and his eyelids were all puffy like Emma’s got when she cried too much, and his mouth was sad too. “Hello!” Emma said brightly, “I’m Emma, and this is Mr. Snuggles!”
The boy didn’t say anything. He just closed his eyes tight and turned his face away. “My brother says you don’t talk, and you cry all the time,” Emma...