- Aubrey Schoenekase and Rachel Clifton have been finest pals since highschool
- When Schoenekase, who lives in Overland Park, Kan., gave delivery to her now 5-month-old daughter, Sutton, Clifton was on the hospital
- Lately, Clifton reached out to Schoenekase and instructed her that she had one thing for Sutton — and instructed it would make the brand new mother cry
- When she introduced it over and Schoenekase opened it, she discovered a stuffed animal
Aubrey Schoenekase and Rachel Clifton met in highschool and have been finest pals ever since.
Their bond is so particular that when Schoenekase, who lives in Overland Park, Kan., gave delivery to her now 5-month-old daughter, Sutton, Clifton, 31, was on the hospital. She was one of many first individuals to see and maintain Sutton, and each week since then, Schoenekase says Clifton has requested when she will come go to.
“Rachel has a approach of creating everybody in her life really feel seen, and I feel that’s such a present,” Schoenekase, additionally 31, tells PEOPLE completely. “She remembers the large issues, the small issues, and the whole lot in between. She is loyal, supportive and a pal that everybody needs they’d.”
“Ensuring my daughter is aware of who she is and the way a lot she loves her has been her precedence since day one,” the mother provides.
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Lately, Clifton reached out to Schoenekase and instructed her that she had one thing for Sutton that she thought would make her cry. When she introduced it over and Schoenekase opened it, she discovered a stuffed animal — a lovey.
Nevertheless it wasn’t till she learn the cardboard that she realized the particular that means behind it. The stuffed animal had a part of Clifton’s maid of honor costume — which she wore throughout Schoenekase’s marriage ceremony — sewn into it.
“I cried instantly,” Schoenekase says. “I immediately thought in regards to the day I’ll get to inform Sutton about it and the that means it holds.”
“My favourite a part of the present is what it represents,” she provides. “My friendship along with her, the function she performed on one of the best day of my life, and now, the connection I hope she has with my daughter.”
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After receiving the present, Schoenekase took a video and posted it on TikTok. She thought it was so particular, and hoped sharing it would encourage another person to do that for a pal, too.
Then, the video went viral.
“I really like seeing individuals say they wish to do that with their attire,” Schoenekase says. “I hoped it might encourage somebody to do the identical so I really like seeing that. And naturally, higher than that, I really like individuals reiterating how particular of a pal Rachel should be, as a result of she is. I already know that, however I really like different individuals recognizing that too.”
“I instructed Rachel as soon as I shared it that I believed individuals would find it irresistible, and so they did,” she provides. “It is the heartwarming form of content material that folks like to see on-line, so I am simply completely happy it is getting seen and cherished. As soon as she noticed it, she instructed me how particular it was to learn individuals’s feedback. She mentioned, ‘I knew it was particular, nevertheless it’s candy to see individuals reacting to it.'”
Schoenekase provides how she gifted Sutton the beautiful the day Clifton delivered it. Since then, she’s watched as her daughter holds onto it once they go for automobile rides.
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“She loves it,” Schoenekase says. “However I am unable to watch for her to be sufficiently old to know the that means it holds.”
“I already know they’ll share such a particular bond,” she provides of her daughter and finest pal. “I am unable to watch for all the enjoyable issues they get to do collectively, the sleepovers they’ll have, and reminiscences they’ll make. And inevitably, the tales I am positive Rachel will inform Sutton about me.”
