From Scoop Upworthy:
When her father died, 23-year-old Chastity Patterson used texting her late father every day as a coping mechanism to help her overcome her loss. For four years, she texted his old number, never expecting to receive a response but as a vent for her grief – that is until she received a response. No, it wasn’t her father talking to her from the netherworld or the afterlife. It turned out that someone else was allocated her late father’s phone number and for four years, he had received every single text she had sent. Once he responded to her messages, he let Chastity know, much to her surprise, that he, too, was bereaved. He had lost his daughter in a car accident five years ago, The Daily Mail reports. The world works in mysterious ways sometimes, doesn’t it?