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4-year-old Ella sends letter to ‘mummy in heaven’ … and gets incredible Mother’s Day reply
To wish her mother – who recently died of cancer- a happy Mother’s Day in heaven, the Scottish Ella Lennon sent her mother a letter and drawing per mail. She’d never expected to get this heartwarming reply…
Letter to: ’1 Angel Gate in the clouds, heaven’
Ella Lennon, aged four, popped a special "mum in a minion" card in a postbox only four months after losing her mother Jennifer. The letter was addressed to ’1 Angel Gate in the clouds, heaven’.
![Spending her first Mother's Day without Jennifer, the Kilmarnock four-year-old sent the letter to her mum in heaven. And within 48 hours, she received a reply from a thoughtful Royal Mail employee.
Sharing the sweet story on Twitter, Jennifer's sister Linda Ross, 24, said:](https://www.brightvibes.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/php8Ge7Qo.png)
Sharing the sweet story on Twitter, Jennifer’s sister Linda Ross, 24, said: ” On my sister’s 1st heavenly Mother’s Day Ella sent her mummy a card, today a kind stranger from the Royal Mail used their time to reply and make a little girl so happy! Her face lit up with the biggest smile, Just shows the amazing people in this world! Can’t thank you enough ❤️✨ Source: Twittter – Lindaa_x
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Cancer nurse Linda later added that they read the reply away from Ella first to make sure it was appropriate – and found the wording “suitable to her mum’s memory and character”. Source: Twitter – Lindaa_x
Jennifer’s husband thanks the Royal Mail
Dean Lennon, 30, – Ella’s dad and Jennifer’s husband – added: "I would like to thank the kind-hearted person at the Royal Mail who sent Ella back a letter from her mummy in heaven.
"Her wee face was lit up."
Source: The Scottish Sun
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