{"id":107651,"date":"2025-01-14T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/?p=107651"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T04:00:02","slug":"old-widow-finds-flowers-at-her-doorstep-every-week-has-no-idea-who-theyre-from-story-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/old-widow-finds-flowers-at-her-doorstep-every-week-has-no-idea-who-theyre-from-story-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Widow Finds Flowers at Her Doorstep Every Week, Has No Idea Who They’re From \u2013 Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The couple had three children, six grandchildren, and their first great-grandchild was born a few months before Albert died. Vivienne knew they had lived a long, peaceful life filled with love, so her heart was at ease despite how much she missed Albert.\n

But a few months after his death, she returned home from Sunday mass to see a bouquet of her favorite flowers on her doorstep. \u201cOh, aren\u2019t these the most exquisite roses!\u201d Vivienne said to herself after picking them up.\n

She called her daughter, Miriam, who told her she didn’t send them. Vivienne rang both her sons too, but neither Andrew nor Blake sent them either. They all promised to ask their children to see if any of them had.\n

But after a few phone calls, no one in the family could figure out who did it. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, Mom. None of my kids did. But Gina said that she once saw a movie where an old man instructed a flower shop to send flowers to his wife after his death,\u201d Miriam said.\n

\u201cDo you think your father did that?\u201d Vivienne wondered.\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, but I remember that Dad always got you flowers from the same shop. It couldn\u2019t hurt to ask them,\u201d Miriam suggested. So Vivienne called their go-to flower shop, but they didn\u2019t have such an order from Albert.\n

She called Miriam again, but her daughter Gina had no other ideas. \u201cWell, Mom. Maybe some kind stranger sent a random bouquet. Just enjoy them.\u201d\n

Vivienne put the matter off her mind for the rest of the week and continued with her life. However, another bouquet was waiting at her doorstep when she returned from mass the following Sunday.\n

\u201cIt\u2019s weird, Miriam. What if it\u2019s a creep or one of those stalkers I\u2019ve read about?\u201d she hesitated.\n

\u201cStop watching crime documentaries, Mom. It\u2019s none of that. Just enjoy the flowers,\u201d Miriam said, exasperated. She didn\u2019t think her mother should be worried about flowers. But the bouquets kept coming every Sunday, and Vivienne needed to know what was happening.\n

\u201cOk, Grandma. I bought you this camera for your front door. It records who comes to your doorstep and such,\u201d explained Hanna, Miriam\u2019s other daughter, when she came over to visit her grandmother. She installed the camera herself, and they waited to see what happened.\n

That Sunday, they saw a strange man with a bouquet. He left them on her porch and then fled. \u201cThat\u2019s weird, Grandma. It’s a young man,\u201d Hanna said when she browsed through the footage.\n

\u201cSee? It\u2019s weird. I told your mother this whole thing was odd, but she doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s a big deal,\u201d Vivienne replied.\n

\u201cI think he might just be a delivery man. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s the one sending the flowers, although he\u2019s not wearing a uniform,\u201d Hanna observed. \u201cLet\u2019s wait to see if he comes around again.\u201d\n

He did. The man came over every Sunday at the same time to deliver the flowers. Finally, Vivienne had enough and decided not to attend church to catch him. This time, Hanna and Andrew\u2019s son, Jake, stayed with her just in case.\n

They were watching the live footage of the camera when the man showed up. Jake rushed to the door, opened it, and the man bolted. But Jake ran to catch him while Hanna stayed behind with Vivienne.\n

Jake caught him before the man could escape and brought him back to his grandmother\u2019s house. \u201cWho are you, young man? Why have you been delivering flowers here every week?\u201d Vivienne asked sternly.\n

\u201cMrs. Harrison, this is hard to explain. My name is Michael, and your husband was my grandfather,\u201d the man began.\n

\u201cWhat? Are you crazy, man? We know all our cousins. There\u2019s no way,\u201d Jake warned angrily.\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s hard to take. From what I know, Grandpa Albert had an affair right before getting married. My grandmother didn\u2019t know she was pregnant until months later. Then she raised my mother alone. But I reached out to Grandpa a few years ago,\u201d Michael stated.\n

\u201cWe formed a nice bond. He told me about your family and wanted to introduce me to you guys. But the timing was never right. The last time I spoke to him, he said that if he passed, he hoped I would buy you flowers, as his apology for not telling you the truth sooner.\u201d\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe this,\u201d Hanna whispered. Jake shook his head. But Vivienne knew that the boy was telling the truth. He looked just like Albert did when they got married.\n

\u201cYou are the spitting image of my late husband. Do you think I could meet your grandmother?\u201d Vivienne asked. She had a few questions for the woman.\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry. My Grandma and Mom died in a car accident when I was 20. That\u2019s why I reached out to Grandpa. I didn\u2019t have any family left,\u201d Michael revealed.\n

\u201cOh, my dear. I\u2019m sorry. In that case, I\u2019m glad that you got to meet Albert. He was a family man through and through. This might be a shock to the rest of the family, but they will want to meet you,\u201d Vivienne assured.\n

The entire family was shocked to learn about Grandpa Albert\u2019s affair, but they welcomed Michael at Vivienne\u2019s insistence. They had a BQQ party where everyone got to meet him. Michael also introduced them to his wife and their toddler.\n

\u201cMom, how can you be so calm about this?\u201d Miriam asked her mother at the gathering.\n

\u201cOh, honey. Life is so short. If I had discovered this incident years ago, maybe I would\u2019ve been mad. But now, I\u2019m just glad to have more people to love. Also, he followed your father\u2019s wishes to make me happy. That tells you the kind of man he is,\u201d Vivienne shared.\n

In the end, Michael formed a beautiful bond with most of his cousins, who were all around his age. It took a little longer for his aunt and uncles to accept him, but they did in the end.\n

But most surprisingly, Michael had a soft spot for Vivienne. He continued to bring her flowers every Sunday, and the older woman invited him for tea every time.\n

What can we learn from this story?\n

It\u2019s easier to see the big picture when you\u2019re older. Her kids and grandkids couldn\u2019t understand at first, but Vivienne knew they would all be happier after accepting Michael.
\nDon\u2019t keep secrets. Albert should\u2019ve told his wife about Michael as soon as he found out. But he died before he could say anything.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Months after her husband Albert died, Vivienne started receiving her favorite flowers every week. None of her children or grandchildren had sent them, so they set up a surveillance camera to find out who did. But the truth changed their entire family. Albert and Vivienne Harrison lived in Indianapolis, Indiana for most of their 55-year\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":107677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[855],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/OLD-WIDOW-FINDS-HER-FAVORITE-ROSES-AT-HER-DOORSTEP-EVERY-SUNDAY.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107678,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107651\/revisions\/107678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}