Sweetest birthday gesture from a father for his daughter leaves Twitter teary-eyed

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Bailey Sellers got the most special and touching surprise when she received a card on her birthday from her father, who had died of cancer in 2013, just a few months before Bailey's seventeenth birthday.

Birthdays are a special affair for most of us. However, this story about a girl from Tennessee would leave you in tears.
Bailey Sellers got the most special and touching surprise when she received a card on her birthday from her father who had died of Stage 4, pancreatic cancer in 2013,  just before a few months left for Bailey's seventeenth birthday.
Mike Sellers, who was Bailey's father, prepaid a florist before his death to send flowers and a card for her birthday till she turns twenty-one.
"When I opened this card, I especially felt him with me. It's a cold feeling, then a happy feeling at the same time.", Bailey told CNN.
This yea,r Bailey celebrated her twenty-first birthday and the card that came with the flowers read "I am in a better place. You are and will always be the most precious jewel I was given. I will still be with you through every milestone. Just look around and there I will be."
Bailey was touched with her father's gesture and tweeted a picture of the letter,  flowers and a childhood picture with her father.

The twenty-one-year old received heartwarming response on Twitter where people shared similar stories and empathised with Bailey.
She said that her father would be proud of himself for pulling this very sweet gesture successfully

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