Daughter Finds Father's Lost College Jacket By Posting About It On Social Media
He told his daughter, Beverly Amick, that he could no longer find his valuable jacket, reported Bangor Daily News. Along with his relatives, Amick retraced Osborn's usual routes, assuming that he must have placed the jacket on his car and it had fallen off while he was driving.
All of us have treasured belongings that we've maintained and kept in mint condition for several years. For this 92-year-old man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, it was his varsity letter jacket.
Mal Osborn has had that jacket for more than 60 years. He received it from the University of Maine as a track runner. Unfortunately, he lost it in October.
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He told his daughter, Beverly Amick, that he could no longer find his valuable jacket, reported Bangor Daily News. Along with his relatives, Amick retraced Osborn's usual routes, assuming that he must have placed the jacket on his car and it had fallen off while he was driving.
When that did not work, Amick posted a photo of her father wearing the jacket at a Master's swimming competition in 2016 and asked for help finding it.
¡°This man would be ecstatic if this well loved (sic) jacket was found,¡± she wrote in the post that was shared more than 1,000 times.
Osborn ran long-distance track and cross-country events from 1949-52 at the University of Maine. He said the letter jacket had become a part of him after so many years.
¡°I just know how much it meant to him. I was going to do everything in my power to find it," Amick told Associated Press.
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Amick received an email from a woman who lived near her father and she claimed to have found the jacket in her yard, covered in leaves.
Osborn has been wearing the jacket since Amick had it dry-cleaned and returned it to him.
She said, ¡°As challenging as this year has been, this has given us some hope".
¡°I appreciate all the kindness and compassion that was shown during the last 24 hours. This experience is certainly a positive event to finish out 2020,¡± she wrote on Facebook after the jacket had been found.
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Social media is a powerful tool.
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