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Girl, 5, writes Christmas bauble apology to John Lewis | Girl, 5, writes Christmas bauble apology to John Lewis |
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A five-year-old girl sent a handwritten apology to a department store after accidentally breaking a Christmas tree bauble - with two pound coins attached to pay for the damage. | |
Faith wrote to John Lewis in Cambridge after visiting on Saturday. | Faith wrote to John Lewis in Cambridge after visiting on Saturday. |
The letter said: "I'm sorry I broke a Christmas bauble... it cost two pounds. Here is the money for it. Sorry again". | The letter said: "I'm sorry I broke a Christmas bauble... it cost two pounds. Here is the money for it. Sorry again". |
General manager Dominic Joyce said Faith would be sent a present after the store managed to track her down. | |
He said the girl's mother telephoned after seeing media reports about the letter, but she did not want her identity revealed because she was a "very shy little girl". | |
Mr Joyce said the letter had no address, so staff had been trying since the start of the week to find Faith to thank her in person. | |
"It was just the sweetest letter that was addressed to the John Lewis Christmas Department," he said. | "It was just the sweetest letter that was addressed to the John Lewis Christmas Department," he said. |
"It had a Cambridge postmark and that's all we knew. We think the drawing is of her holding the bauble - it may be a self portrait, but other than that we had nothing else to go on." | |
After the letter was posted on social media, people began a campaign to track down the girl using the hashtag #findfaith. | |
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