A very sad and very beautiful tale.
Many of you will have heard of the man known as Mattress Mick.
Self-described as “Ireland’s craziest salesman,” he doesn’t take himself too seriously and has appeared in a number of fairly wacky ads to promote his furniture business in Dublin in the past.
See Exhibit A below.
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This evening, he showed himself in a completely different light, sharing a story of love and loss on the Humans of Dublin Facebook page as he recounted a phone call with his first love shortly before she passed away from cancer.
Mick told of how he shared a conversation with the woman in question in the same week that she passed away, describing it as “the nicest phone call I had ever received in my life”.
Take a couple of minutes to have a read of the story below because it is at once, poignant, sad and heartwarming all at the same time.
"When I was in my late teens I met a girl, and she became very, very special to me. She was my first love. We were…
Posted by Humans of Dublin on Monday, 1 February 2016
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