The mall grew quiet.<\/p>\n
Daniel and his sister stared at each other.<\/p>\n
Neither could believe it.<\/p>\n
Then\u2014<\/p>\n
the young girl slowly lifted her sleeve.<\/p>\n
Around her wrist was a faded blue friendship bracelet.<\/p>\n
Daniel’s breath caught.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou still have that?\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded through tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou tied it on my wrist the day we got separated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel gently touched the worn bracelet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made you promise never to take it off.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never did,\u201d she whispered.<\/p>\n
Tears streamed down his face.<\/p>\n
He pulled her into a tight hug.<\/p>\n
The woman who had mocked her lowered her eyes in shame.<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at his sister and smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI searched for you every birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n
She smiled back through her tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I prayed you’d find me.\u201d<\/p>\n
After years apart\u2014<\/p>\n
a simple act of kindness had led them back to each other.<\/p>\n
Because sometimes\u2014<\/p>\n
the family you’re searching for is only one moment away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mall grew quiet. Daniel and his sister stared at each other. Neither could believe it. Then\u2014 the young girl slowly lifted her sleeve. Around her wrist was a faded blue friendship bracelet. Daniel’s breath caught. \u201cYou still have that?\u201d She nodded through tears. \u201cYou tied it on my wrist the day we got separated.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}