{"id":16261,"date":"2017-11-27T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=16261"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:38:39","slug":"tennessee-woman-receives-flowers-sent-5-years-ago-dad-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/11\/tennessee-woman-receives-flowers-sent-5-years-ago-dad-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Woman Receives Flowers Sent 5 Years Ago from Her Dad Before He Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16262\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/11\/bouquet-2498384_640.jpg\" alt=\"bouquet-2498384_640\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p>This is so touching!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee just turned twenty-one years old, and she got her final floral arrangement from her dad, the last she\u2019d ever receive.<\/p>\n<p>He was diagnosed with cancer when she was sixteen years old and died a few months later.\u00a0 Before he passed away, he arranged with a local florist to pre-pay for flowers to be delivered to her on every birthday until her twenty-first.\u00a0 This is her last bouquet.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, she wrote, \u201cMy dad passed away when I was 16 from cancer and before he died he pre payed flowers so i could receive them every year on my birthday. Well this is my 21st birthday flowers and the last. Miss you so much daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She posted a letter he had written her, which evidently the florist delivered as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My dad passed away when I was 16 from cancer and before he died he pre payed flowers so i could receive them every year on my birthday. Well this is my 21st birthday flowers and the last. Miss you so much daddy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vSafKyB2uO\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vSafKyB2uO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bailey Sellers (@SellersBailey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SellersBailey\/status\/934143458637500417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16264\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-27-at-12.04.40-AM-e1511762851836.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-11-27 at 12.04.40 AM\" width=\"700\" height=\"656\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It read:<\/p>\n<p>Bailey, this is my last love letter to you until we meet again.\u00a0 I do not want you to shed another tear for me, baby girl, for I am in a better place.\u00a0 You\u00a0are and will always be the most precious jewel I was given.\u00a0 It is your 21st birthday, and I want you to always respect your momma and stay true to yourself.\u00a0 Be happy and live life to the fullest.\u00a0 I will still be with you through every milestone, just look around and there I\u2019ll be.\u00a0 I love you Boo Boo and happy birthday!!!! Daddy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a sweet, caring thing to arrange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEver since my dad passed away I\u2019ve hated my birthday and I dread it every year because he always made it so special,\u201d Bailey told the <em>New York Post<\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cI was especially dreading my 21st because I knew it would be the last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One and a half million people have favorited her tweet showing the floral arrangement, a\u00a0popularity Bailey said her father would\u2019ve attributed to God.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/bouquet-flowers-valentine-s-day-2498384\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pixabay<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hat Tip:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5117719\/Woman-receives-flowers-dad-died-five-years-ago.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Daily 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