A Texas woman's casual search on Google Earth has led to a deeply emotional discovery.

She shared her find in an Instagram reel , proving that the most-precious family memories can be found in the most-unexpected places.

Kimberly Burleson, 56, was searching through the app's "time capsule" feature when she stumbled upon a scene of her family from 2007 that brought her to tears. She told Newsweek about the discovery and her memory of that time, unexpectedly preserved online.

"I'm just seeing that Google captured my heart in 2007 and I'm in tears," Burleson wrote in her Instagram reel.

For Burleson, the moment felt like a pause button on a memory she never knew had been recorded.

"Google had captured not just my house, but a moment in time ," she said. "My heart felt like it s

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