In order to finally learn about the world, a grieving daughter placed her mother’s ashes in a bottle. The bottle was soon found by an unidentified individual, and the message she gave to the woman’s daughter went viral.
Wendy Chadwick, Cara Melia’s mother, died in February from a heart condition at the age of 51, according to the BBC and the Manchester Evening News. The mother of five never got the chance to see the world, so after her death, the family decided to make up for it.
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The 24-year-old Melia stated in an interview with the newspaper that she had been taking care of her mother for a long time.
Melia initially thought about scattering her ashes on the beach when on a recent vacation to Skegness, an English village on the North Sea coast. Chadwick loved the beach, too.
“But my best friend thought of the bottle idea and put her out to sea,” Melia said, according to the Manchester Evening News. “I wrote the note because I wanted her to have the chance to travel at last, as she was unable to do so before she died.”
This is my mom. “Throw her back in,” was written in the message. She is now traveling the world. Cara from Oldham, UK, thank you so much.
According to the BBC, someone who was visiting a Skegness beach found a bottle. The bottle was found barely twelve hours after Melia had said her last farewell to her mother. A Facebook post discussing the discovery quickly gained widespread attention.
Kelly Sheridan wrote, “Can everyone please share this far and wide in hope that it finds Cara from Oldham!!” on Tuesday, June 3. She accomplished this by adding a description to a video showing a boy tossing the bottle back into the sea, a letter, and a picture of the bottle. “Earlier today, we found this beautiful woman at Butlins, which is on Skegness beach,” she said. The request was fulfilled, and she has been put back in the water. Cara’s mother hopes her trip is enjoyable.
Melia wished the first cruise had been longer, even though she was glad her mother’s ashes had been returned to the North Sea (“Thank you for throwing her back in,” she wrote on Facebook).
“It was supposed to be a while before anyone found her,” she stated in a BBC interview. It was intended that she would be in a nation that was entirely different from her own.
However, Melia thinks her mother would be amused by the discovery. Melia called Chadwick a “very quirky kind of person” in an interview with the magazine. She said that the news would make her mother giggle.
She is hopeful that the next trip would be longer because her mother was returned to the ocean.
Melia stated in an interview with the Manchester Evening News, “I hope she goes further this time and finally gets the chance to travel the world.” It seems to have influenced a large number of people.