When a woman texted the wrong number, she had no idea the eventual impact the mistaken text would have on one family’s life.
Looking for a second opinion, a young woman named Sydney mistakenly sent three picture texts of herself in a formal gown, meant to be received by a friend, to Tennessee father-of-six Tony.
Oops, wrong number! Sydney, a student, mistakenly sends a text of herself in a formal dress to a mystery number.
Instead of responding, “sorry, wrong number” Tony sweetly replied: “I believe this message was intended for someone else. My wife isn’t home, so I couldn’t get her opinion, but the kids and I think you look stunning in the dress! You should definitely go with that one!”
Tony accompanied the kind text with a picture of five of his beaming children all giving the dress a ‘thumbs up’.
Too cute! But wait, this story gets even sweeter.
Father-of-six Tony had the best response to the text.
Tony’s kids say yes to the dress!
Sydney’s friend, a woman named Mandi was so tickled by the exchange, she tweeted it. “Syd accidentally sent pics of her dress to the wrong number and this was their response,” Mandi wrote.
Nearly instantly, the Tweet went viral, racking up almost 175,000 retweets and 700,000 favourites at the time of writing. The famous tweet eventually made it’s way back to Tony, who responded:
“Apparently you have made my children Twitter famous! My 2nd youngest (not pictured, he was at chemo clinic) has a FB page for his fight against leukemia and one of our Prayer Warriors recognised the children! Btw, my wife agreed that the dress looked great! God Bless!”
A Twitter user then tracked down the family’s GoFundMe page, where they had been fundraising for their son Kaizler’s treatment, and posted it on the chain.
“Hope Twitter does it’s magic. Below is the GoFundMe link for Kaizlers treatment for Leukemia,” they wrote.
The family’s GoFundMe page was created two years ago but it wasn’t until Mandi’s tweet that its goal of $10,00 has been reached. Currently, they have raised a whopping $30,567.
This heartwarming story proves the power of the internet to do a whole lot of good. If you wish, you can make a donation to the family here.
