I found this beautiful pink and green fashion yarn and thought I'd knit a scarf for my then 14 year old niece for her birthday in Nov. This niece lives on the other end of the globe. So I figured I'd mail it to her. I made sure I finished it on time and with much care and love packed it, made a trip to the post office, picked a nice gift box and sent it off to her Australia address along with a hand written letter and a birthday card wishing her a world of happiness!
Days went by and I never heard anything from her about this. I did not want to mention it when we spoke on the phone because I wanted her to be surprised. I was almost starting to forget that I had sent this. Then one day the package returned home as I had sent it, but with a bunch of seals, dirtying the pretty package, indicating that it had gone all the way to Australia and back, saying that the addressee does not reside at that address. My brother-in-law and family had moved to a new house and I still had their old address and such a coincidence that I had to mail this in that window where their address was not updated yet.
The package lay on my bookcase headboard for months, along with the outdated hand written letter in it. As it turned out, we all planned a trip to India the following summer and had a family reunion of sorts. It was a memorable 4 days we spent together after 10 years! She sent this picture last week, sporting the scarf :)
Days went by and I never heard anything from her about this. I did not want to mention it when we spoke on the phone because I wanted her to be surprised. I was almost starting to forget that I had sent this. Then one day the package returned home as I had sent it, but with a bunch of seals, dirtying the pretty package, indicating that it had gone all the way to Australia and back, saying that the addressee does not reside at that address. My brother-in-law and family had moved to a new house and I still had their old address and such a coincidence that I had to mail this in that window where their address was not updated yet.
The package lay on my bookcase headboard for months, along with the outdated hand written letter in it. As it turned out, we all planned a trip to India the following summer and had a family reunion of sorts. It was a memorable 4 days we spent together after 10 years! She sent this picture last week, sporting the scarf :)
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