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PIC: Mattress Mick’s story on the Humans of Dublin Facebook page will bring a tear to your eye

Published 21:38 1 Feb 2016 GMT

Updated 21:39 1 Feb 2016 GMT

Conor Heneghan
PIC: Mattress Mick’s story on the Humans of Dublin Facebook page will bring a tear to your eye

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A very sad and very beautiful tale.

Many of you will have heard of the man known as Mattress Mick. Self-described as “Ireland’s craziest salesman,” he doesn’t take himself too seriously and has appeared in a number of fairly wacky ads to promote his furniture business in Dublin in the past. See Exhibit A below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhVV-E0k57c Clip via ShootAudition This evening, he showed himself in a completely different light, sharing a story of love and loss on the Humans of Dublin Facebook page as he recounted a phone call with his first love shortly before she passed away from cancer. Mick told of how he shared a conversation with the woman in question in the same week that she passed away, describing it as “the nicest phone call I had ever received in my life”. Take a couple of minutes to have a read of the story below because it is at once, poignant, sad and heartwarming all at the same time.

"When I was in my late teens I met a girl, and she became very, very special to me. She was my first love. We were...

Posted by Humans of Dublin on Monday, 1 February 2016

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PIC: Mattress Mick’s story on the Humans of Dublin Facebook page will bring a tear to your eye