Abby Connolly
If you were to receive an unexpected package from a stranger containing an old family artifact that revealed something terrible about one of your relatives, how would you react? How does one even go about sending that kind of package?
That is something that TikTok user Chelsey Brown (@chelseyibrown) recently had to ask herself after finding a diary that could completely destroy the reputation of a family and deciding not to send it to the last living descendant.
Chelsey has a fascinating hobby where she goes to flea markets to find old artifacts and heirlooms, eventually sending them to their rightful families so that they can hold onto a delightfully surprising piece of family history.
For example, Chelsey once found a Valentine’s Day letter from a woman addressed to her husband during the 1940s.
Using the address on the card, Chelsey did some extensive research and ended up finding the granddaughter of the woman who wrote the card.
Most of the time, Chelsey will neatly package the little treasures she finds and send them off to the family they once belonged to.
But recently, Chelsey had to abstain from her original system after the heirloom she found contained awful information.
Chelsey made a video about the diary, her captions reading, “This thrifted diary from 1930 was the saddest and most painful thing I’ve read. I will not be returning this one to the descendants. There are some things best left unknown.”
TikTok; pictured above is Chelsey in one of her videos
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