I suddenly lost my dad when I was 10.<\/p>\n
The last gift he brought me was a singing teddy bear. I kept it, and 20 years later, I gave it to my son when he turned 7.<\/p>\n
We needed to add batteries to make it sing again. I opened it, and my entire body went numb when I discovered a very unexpected sight.<\/p>\n
Next to the battery box, he had placed a small cassette. I can\u2019t believe that I found this cassette now,<\/p>\n
20 years after his death. I found a recorder and started to listen to it. I had chills.<\/p>\n
It was my dad\u2019s voice, reading me favorite stories, sharing funny memories, and offering advice for my future self.<\/p>\n
He ended by saying that, since he wouldn\u2019t meet my children, he wanted me to pass the cassette to them so they could \u201cmeet\u201d their granddad.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s exactly what I did. The cassette is now my most treasured possession, and my son loves it too. I can\u2019t believe we never knew about it\u2014my mom didn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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