DALLAS, Texas – A little boy got a surprise after he lost his teddy bear on an airplane, KTVT reports.
Grayson and Teddy have always been inseparable.
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“I play with him a lot. I carry him around a lot,” said Grayson Mulligan.
But on a trip from Dallas to New Orleans over the Thanksgiving holiday, something unimaginable happened.
“He noticed teddy was gone when he had gotten to Granny and Paw-paw’s house, and that’s when the hunt for teddy began,” said Grayson’s mom, Christina Mulligan.
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Christina posted to Southwest Airline’s Facebook page, hoping someone would find her son’s best friend.
“I called the baggage claim area, the TSA. I called the lost and found in New Orleans,” Christina said. “Everyday a package would show up - is that teddy? It was traumatizing.”
A month passed and still no teddy.
But, just this month, Grayson got a surprise from Southwest.
A new bear - whose adventure to his home was a story all of its own, all documented for Grayson to see.
Grayson lost his teddy, but gained a new travel companion and friend thanks to a few Southwest Employees.
Posted by Southwest Airlines on Monday, January 20, 2020
“I felt happy because I know they cared a lot about me and I have some flight attendant bears too,” Grayson said.
His new friend, named Jack.
“Because he looked like a Jack to me,” Grayson said.
Just a boy and his bear, ready for new adventures and grateful for the kindness that brought them together.
“There’s a reason why they have that heart on their airplanes,” Christina said.
“Because they care about people,” Grayson said.
“Right," said Christina.
In 2015, Southwest also reunited a different boy with his stuff tiger named Hobbes.