Bella Graham is just four years old, so she didn’t understand the importance of properly celebrating birthdays until recently. And as we all know, a proper celebration always involves cake.
But celebrating her mom Jessica’s birthday is tricky, because she passed away two years ago of a pulmonary embolism. She would’ve turned 30 on April 28, and in the weeks leading up to that milestone, little Bella was growing more and more anxious.
You just can’t have a birthday without cake, and how are we supposed to get one to her?
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Bella lives with her dad, Josh, in Edgewater, Florida, and her grandmother, Laura, runs a baking company in nearby Port Orange. Laura came up with a genius idea, but it involved some finagling. Getting the local post office on board was key to pulling it off.
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When staff there heard the story about this sweet little girl who just wanted to make sure her mom got to eat her homemade birthday cake, they, of course, were more than happy to oblige.
Days later, Bella and Laura arrived with a two-tier, red velvet and vanilla cake snug inside a cardboard box, with the following return label:
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An employee inside directed them to a special line – one specifically for people who were shipping to heaven. When they arrived at the counter, another employee carefully placed a stamp on the box and assured young Bella that the cake would arrive before April 28.
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“She was so happy, she gave me a high five and said, ‘Mommy’s getting her birthday cake, she’s going to have a party!’”recalled Laura, who noted that the post office handles countless letters to Santa every year, and “Heaven isn’t that much further.â€
“They have no idea how much it meant to her, to be able to do that for her mom,”she added.
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