Mom orders daughter’s birthday present before death, then it is canceled (exclusive)

Erin Barbee was looking forward to getting her LL Bean boat and Tote as a gift from her mother, which placed the order just before she died.

Barbee, 28, had told her mother that she wanted to celebrate her new married name with an embroidered “Barbee Girl” bag. So when her birthday was in May she asked for one.

“My mom had bought it for me, but it was on re -order, and it was not available until June. I knew it, and I had a good time with it,” Barbee tells People exclusively.

But while she was waiting for the bag, the delivery was pushed back from June to July, then from July to August. Barbee believes that the brand had sent an e -mail message to confirm the order, as it had already been delayed twice, but they did not see it, and the order was finally canceled.

“I think what happened is that no one went in to manually do it, because it was an order my mother had done, and I received this e -mail that it had been canceled,” she shares.

“At first it feels like just one bag. I order another,” she adds. “Then it struck me that it would be the last birthday present I would get from my mother. She passed on June 17.”

Realized the sentimental value took Barbee to Tiktok Asking people if they had an extra boat and tote, they can be willing to spare and explain why it meant so much to her. The video went viral and collected 1.6 million views.

“I opened Tiktok and made the video on my lunch break, went back to work, and suddenly it was like people handed out and said, ‘I have one, but it’s not the exact one, but I can send it, or I have this one,'” she shares. “Then there was a girl who had the exact one, and she said she would send it.”

However, LL was the video and reached out and told her they would express ships a bag, embroidered with “Barbee Girl.”

Although Barbee told the woman who had originally offered her the bag that she didn’t need it anymore, “she sent it anyway.”

“She said,” It has put in my wardrobe. It was meant for you to have. I know that LL Bean was enough to you, but I still send this one anyway, so you have a backup, “says Barbee.

“Someone said that the last gift my mom got me was the bag,” shares Barbee. “But the last gift was all this encouragement from humans. It has been a light during the most difficult couple of weeks of my entire life.”

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Barbee shares that her mother “cared so deeply about people.”

“When I was growing up, my family used to joke that she was too emotional because we would watch football and someone would score, and she would tear up and say:” His mother is probably so proud of him, “” reminds Bare. “I used to think she was exaggerated, but she cared so much and she loved people so deeply.”

“She was so welcoming and funny,” she adds by her mother. “She only made people feel included and at home with her.”

While Barbee admits that “grief can feel isolating and lonely,” she says that “this process shows me how alone I am.”