Poor Woman Buys Old Dress with Crumpled Note at Flea Market and Decides to Find the Owner — Story of the Day

A poor woman bought an old dress after a sad breakup only to find a crumpled note inside it — she decided to locate the owner but found more than she bargained for.

Laura was done. She had just ended things with her boyfriend, Ian. He was a tall, handsome man who had played her like a fiddle because of her infatuation with him.

She called her feelings for him an infatuation because after they broke up, her eyes opened to how many things she had chosen to unsee. After all, she had not wanted to lose him.

It had not been love; Laura was confident. It could not have been; no man who loved a woman would knowingly hurt her with his actions.

She had been dating Ian for eight months. The first four months were blissful; it included dinner dates, morning kisses, and nightly cuddles. If only she had known they preceded four months of hell.

Ian’s behavior changed in their fifth month together. He started being distant and eventually began avoiding her. Where before there had been dozens of calls from him, that month saw it all stop.

A few months later, after Laura had enough, she traced him to his office to meet him. He was not expecting her, so he was shocked when she walked into his office one Monday morning.

They sat down to talk, and she caught a family portrait on his table. It was all she needed to know to figure out his behavior — he was a married man. She ended it with him there and walked away, heartbroken.

Rather than boarding a taxi back to her apartment, Laura chose to walk because of how sad she was feeling. She wanted time to mentally sort through her emotions and was sure a long walk would give her time to do that.

She cried as she walked, and she almost got hit twice by a car, but she was too sad to care. She walked until she came across a small flea market.

Laura would have gone past it, but she...