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” Mara, I love you, I’m so happy of you, I’ll constantly be with you.”
Those words, included in a voice recording in a plush bear, are the last thing Vancouver’s Mara Soriano had of her mother who passed away of cancer in 2015.
Now they’re gone– pilfered by an opportunistic burglar on Friday– and Soriano is pleading with the city to help her discover her keepsake.
Hey people! I should have been more specific about the Herschel bag- it was similar to this, but a little a navy blue, but it had black straps! Please keep your eyes peeled, everyone has been so amazing and we have actually been getting a lot of pointers and leads and we act on all of them! pic.twitter.com/JTy2DboIDU
— mara soriano (@drawmaradraw) July 26, 2020
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UPDATE: Footage of the back street, he put the knapsack on his front. He was using a hat and kept his head down. This is him for sure!! pic.twitter.com/eAgMzLzR2D
— mara soriano (@drawmaradraw) July 26, 2020
Ryan Reynolds, perhaps the city’s best-known celebrity export, has actually even provided to help.
Up Until Friday, Soriano had actually kept the bear securely in the house, relying on it to provide her comfort in bumpy rides or when she missed her family in Ontario.
Female appeals for return of stuffed bear with recording of dead mothers voice
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Mara Soriano
” Each time I missed (my mom) I would hug that bear and I would listen to that recording,” she told Global News.
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” It was so essential to me that I kept it with the rest of our important paperwork, with our passports, with our social insurance numbers.”
That’s where the bear was when a burglar caught it on Friday.
Soriano and her fiancé were moving into a brand-new house in the city’s West End when a pal who was pertaining to help was struck by a vehicle.
Mara and her mom.
Mara Soriano
Soriano worried and hurried to the crash scene, dropping her Herschel backpack with her valuables in it, consisting of an iPad, a Nintendo Change, essential documents, and the bear.
Her fiancé kept working, not realizing Soriano had not taken the bag with her.
The pal, thankfully, was OK, but the valuable bear was gone.
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” In the five minutes that I put it down and he had unloaded the U-haul, this individual had taken the bag,” she said.
The search for the bear has actually now gone viral.
Ryan Reynolds required to Twitter to use a $5,000 benefit for its return.
George Stroumboulopoulos followed it up with a deal of $5,000 more.
I’ll add 5g to that. https://t.co/o7qwUnO8Np
— Prime Mixister StroumPHÒulopoulos (@strombo) July 26, 2020
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” I just right away started sobbing. It’s insane,” Soriano said of the public profusion of assistance.
” I never thought something like this would take place to me.”
In the meantime, she’s asking that whoever has actually the packed bear return it– no concerns asked.
” Please return the bear. I don’t care about the iPad and the bag … I can change my passport,” she stated.
” I simply want my bear back. It’s my last thing I have of my mommy that reminds me of her.”
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