A woman online learned about the history of her condo—and it was shockingly personal.
In a post to Reddit with 46,000 upvotes, Simone, 26, shared how she discovered that her late mother had once lived in her current Florida condo. She spoke to Newsweek about the amazing realization and how it has strengthened her connection to her late mother.
In the post , Simone wrote that she had lost her mother to colon cancer when she was just 5 years old, leaving her with few memories of her. Recently given bonds her mother had purchased for her as a child, Simone noticed something as she examined the paperwork—one of her mother’s old addresses was listed, and it was from the same condominium complex where Simone has been living for the past five years. The realization struck her: before buying their family home, her mother had lived in the very same complex…