A father is on a mission to find his daughter’s special teddy bear that was donated to Goodwill by mistake.
The bear may look like any Build-a-Bear toy, but this one is the final connection the child has to her mother. It contained a recording of her late mother’s heartbeat.
“My daughter’s mom passed away and her grandma made her bear with her mom’s heartbeat in it,” Tylor Kennedy told WATE.
He told the television station that it was all that his daughter has left of her mother.
Kennedy reached out to Goodwill in Tazewell, Tennessee, but the store could not find the bear. A manager told Kennedy that someone local may have bought the bear and that it may still be in Claiborne County, WATE reported.
WRIL shared the story and photos of similar-looking bears in hopes that someone may have purchased it and would be willing to return the heirloom to the family. The radio station later posted in the Facebook comments a video from the 4-year-old girl’s grandmother of the bear and the sound of the heartbeat.
But the bear also may not even be in Tennessee anymore. WRIL reported it could be somewhere in the Tri-State area, meaning it could be in Tennessee, Kentucky or Virginia.
Build-A-Bear Workshop is also helping spread the word about the missing bear in hopes of getting it back home.
“Please, if y’all find it or see anybody that has one, just check or turn it into and I believe that somebody will get a reward if they dropped it off. I mean I know they’ll get their money back for sure,” Kennedy told WATE, pleading for the bear’s return.
