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Story of a widow, a lake, and a rose will restore your faith in humanity

2025-04-27 00:31:34

Hope you have tissues nearby.

The Bishop Vesey's Grammar School rowing club found a rose attached to the locked gate at a nearby lake, with the most heartbreaking note accompanying it.

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"Please can someone throw this in the lake for me?" the note says. "My late husband's ashes are in the lake and I can't get to the lakeside in my wheelchair anymore + gates are locked — have to drive back up north tonight. Thank you."

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The rowing club made sure that the rose was united with the person's husband.

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"No name or number left but whoever you are, rest assured your rose is in place in the middle of the lake," the club tweeted.

It's pretty damn heartwarming.

Twitter users were glad to see that there was still some hope in the world.

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Some, though, wished that the widow didn't have to leave the note at all.

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Hopefully the person who left the rose knows that it made its way home.

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