When Lauren opened her grandfather’s gift, she didn’t know that it would bring her to tears.
Lauren “Ren” Blank was celebrating her 16th birthday. But she had no idea how her grandpa would make that day for her extra special…he chose to give her something more priceless than any other gift.
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Always being close to 72-year-old grandfather Ron Petrillo who helped raise her as a kid, the young woman had formed a bond early on with him. But she had absolutely no idea that he was planning to give her a surprise for years…he was just waiting for the perfect time.
Source: Lauren Blank
On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, her beloved grandpa Ron handed her three spiral notebooks. In it, her grandpa would write his heartwarming stories with her, how he would dance himself silly and make Ren laugh.
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These detailed stories were written back when she was around 2-5 years old and all along she has no idea that her grandpa kept it all these years!
Source: Lauren Blank
Ren posted it on Twitter and the post garnered 161,000 retweets and 600,000 likes. So many people were touched with the special bond the two shared.
