{"id":3070,"date":"2023-10-15T06:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T06:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highspeedjob.com\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2023-10-15T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T06:50:22","slug":"mom-sells-dead-sons-bed-buyer-returns-later-and-says-look-in-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highspeedjob.com\/mom-sells-dead-sons-bed-buyer-returns-later-and-says-look-in-trunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Sells Dead Son\u2019s Bed, Buyer Returns Later And Says \u2018Look In Trunk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a mom sold her dead son\u2019s bed at a yard sale, she was surprised when the buyer returned days later. Then, he shocked her even further when he told her to look in the\u00a0trunk. That\u2019s when she began to cry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Valerie Watts, a young mother from Cokato, Minnesota, tragically learned firsthand how difficult it is to lose a child. During her ninth month of pregnancy, everything was prepared for the birth of her son. But, then,\u00a0 just a few days before her due date, she felt something was wrong. Unfortunately, her mother\u2019s intuition was right.<\/p>\n

Valerie sensed something wasn\u2019t right when her son had stopped moving in her womb. Unbeknownst to Valerie at the time, her son\u2019s umbilical cord had become pinched in utero, cutting off his supply of oxygen and nutrients. The baby, who she named Noah, died in her womb, and the devastated mother later delivered him stillborn\u00a0\u2014 a circumstance many can hardly imagine. Sadly, Valerie had to live through every mother\u2019s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n

After her son\u2019s tragic passing, Valerie Watts struggled with what to do with Noah\u2019s belongings. An entire nursery was ready for a baby who never made it home. For over a year, his room remained untouched. Then, the mourning mother finally had a yard sale, where she eventually agreed to sell\u00a0the crib she had so anxiously hoped to use when she welcomed her son home \u2014 a reality that never came to be.<\/p>\n

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Originally, the crib wasn\u2019t for sale, but when a man named Gerald Kumpula spotted it, he immediately asked Valerie how much she wanted for it. He had big plans for it without knowing the story behind it. With hesitation, Valerie finally agreed on a price and let go of the last physical reminder of her son. Soon, Gerald was on his way with her deceased son\u2019s crib in hand, not knowing what had happened to the boy that the bed was meant for. However, before Gerald left, Valerie had told Noah\u2019s story to Gerald\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

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While chatting with Valerie Watts, Gerald\u2019s wife had asked how old her son was after seeing the crib and some tiny clothes at the yard sale. She was crushed by the truth.\u00a0As the couple was on their way home with the crib, Gerald\u2019s wife shared with him what Valerie had told her. He had simply assumed she was selling items her children had outgrown, but after hearing her story, he immediately knew what he was going to do.<\/p>\n

Understanding how important the crib was to the grief-stricken mother, Gerald explained, \u201cWe decided on our way home that this [crib] was going back.\u201d But, there was a twist when it came to his plan. Gerald was going to put his talents as a carpenter to use and make some changes since he realized it wasn\u2019t realistic for Valerie to keep the crib in its existing form forever.<\/p>\n

Instead, Gerald transformed the crib into a piece of furniture that could be displayed anywhere in Valerie\u2019s home in memory of her son. Using his talent, Gerald took what was once an unused crib and a painful reminder, and he made it into a bench that honored Noah\u2019s memory, giving it a new purpose \u2014 a place where Valerie could sit and feel close to the baby she had lost.<\/p>\n

But, Valerie had no idea what Gerald was up to just a few miles away in the workshop that he had set up in his garage. That is until a week after the sale when, to her total surprise, Gerald was back at her home days after buying Noah\u2019s bed. With him was the crib-turned-bench, and Valerie started crying the instant she saw the precious gift. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to be able to do something,\u201d a tearful Gerald told reporters, standing in the shop where he converted a heartbreaking memory into a heartwarming reminder for Valerie instead.<\/p>\n