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A woman went viral after receiving a never-before-seen video of her father on his birthday, 25 years after he died at 27

The clip captured his voice and personality in ways she hadn’t remembered since childhood, immediately reshaping how she and her siblings see him

She tells PEOPLE the moment helped heal part of her grief and inspired her to document her own life for her children’s future memories

It'd been 25 years since Ashleigh Vaillancourt Seegar lost her father when she opened her phone and found a message that made the years collapse in an instant.

A distant relative had sent her a video of him she never knew existed — a small, ordinary moment that neither she nor her two siblings had ever seen before.

“It was actually my father's birthday,” Seegar tells PEOPLE, r

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