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A woman placed her mom's ashes in a bottle, so she could finally travel the world
“This is my mum. Throw her back in,” Cara Melia wrote on the note she placed in the bottle. “She’s travelling the world."
Another woman found the bottle within 12 hours — and her message to Melia went viral
A grieving daughter placed her mom’s ashes in a bottle so she could finally see the world. Not long after, a stranger found the bottle — and her message to the woman's daughter went viral.
In February, Cara Melia’s mom, 51-year-old Wendy Chadwick, died of a heart condition, the BBC and the Manchester Evening News reported. The mom of five never got a chance to travel the globe, which her family decided to rectify after her death.
“For a long time she looked after her late brother a