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The Incredible, Unlikely Story of a Boy Being Reunited With His Stuffed Monkey That Will Likely Make You Cry

Sep. 11, 2012 12:25pm Liz Klimas

A touching, somewhat miracle of a story has been making its rounds on the Internet since last week. It’s the story of Liam and his blue stuffed monkey named “Ah-ah,” who after going missing for three years was found on eBay and reunited with his rightful owner. Naturally, the reunion was filmed and has since been put on YouTube.

For many a child’s stuffed animal or favored blanket, it is a heartbreaking turn of events when these items are lost, but it’s a relatively common occurrence as they’re taken on every adventure the youngster embarks upon. For Liam from Omaha, Neb., Ah-ah was a faithful companion, traveling from home to grandparents to preschool and, on one fateful trip, to the Rocky Mountains. It was there where Liam and Ah-ah were separated.

Liam’s father, in a video posted on YouTube, writes that his son was “absolutely devastated.” Like many parents have done over the years in an effort to recover lost items, Liam’s parents called all the stops in search for the blue monkey — nothing turned up.

At this point, parents would generally give up or try to assuage the pain with a replacement. Liam’s mom kept looking though, and it paid off. The video explains that while searching eBay for a viola for her daughter, Liam’s mom on instinct searched for “blue monkey.”

HyperVocal, the first to pick up the story, reports the mother found Ah-ah listed on the site (see below) from a seller in Florida with the store named Lost Loves Toy Chest.

Omaha Mom Locates Lost Stuffed Monkey Ah ah on eBay After Three Years and Reunites It With Son

Former eBay listing for Ah-ah.

Amazed at finding such a similar blue monkey, the mom bought the stuffed animal thinking she had finally found a decent replacement three years later for her son.

Thanks to tell-tale marks on the monkey when it arrived, the family knew it wasn’t just a replacement.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch the reunion of the well-loved stuffed animal for yourself (Note: Actual reunion starts at 1:50):

Liam’s mother can barely hold it together herself as she starts reminding her son of the Ah-ah’s characteristics — how he cut the tag off when he was little. She begins to choke up at this point and starts crying when she says “He came in the mail today.”

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

The New York Daily News contacted the owner of Loves Lost Toy Chest, Tammy Stavely, who said “I’m just happy that they found it.”

“I’m so glad that I could help,” Stavely continued, according to the New York Daily News. “I’ve been in that position and I know that that item is basically priceless, you can’t sleep, the kid’s crying.”

HyperVocal reports speaking with Liam’s father who said his son is a bit embarrassed from all the attention his story has received, but the family would like to “turn all this positive attention into something good.” HyperVocal states the father suggests if people are touched by Liam’s reunion, they donate to MyCharityWater.org.

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barbhed
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:20pm
We must surely bow our heads and pray!

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jp2feminist
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:13pm
Another way to look at it is that Ah-ah was being held hostage for $29,99. Cute story! A miracle, for sure!
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:32pm
  CUTE?
  
  This boy’s mother turned him into a big sissy. His mother must be a latent homosexual. The boy will make a good Gay Marine. Do you think a kid in Iraq, Iran, China, Russia, or North Korea would behave like this? I am still puking my guts into a brown paper shopping bag as I type this.
  
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mike_trivisonno
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:11pm
The internet is blessed.
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PhineasJWhoopee
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:06pm
From your lips to Gods ears.

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PhineasJWhoopee
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:03pm
What kind of kids are they bringing up these days? When I was this kids age I was pushing a lawn mower and didn’t carry-on like that when my dog died. Mom should have the doctor check to see if his nuts have dropped.

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- Marcia
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:15pm
  PHINEASJWHOOPEE don’t be so harsh. Lots of kids have special blankies or animals. This is a sweet, touching story – don’t spoil it!!
- DaveBlade
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:25pm
  ROFLMAO!! You, BILLROW, RICKWS, JONGEORGE, THEAMERICANVISION and others gave me the best belly laugh I have had in a lonnnng, lonnnng time!!!! Bravo!
  
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- FREEDOMoverFEAR
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:08pm
  Look at this Blazer’s most men on this site think this is ridiculous most women think it’s sweet. This is why the Bible calls for women to be submissive, because men think with their heads while women think with their hearts.
  
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- Billca
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:21pm
  @PHINEASJWHOOPEE and all the other jackwagons out there claiming this mom “set back” her kid or “turned him gay”… I used to think The Blaze was a place for people who were mature and responsible conservatives, not emotionally stunted morons who have forgotten what it’s like to be a child. For a child, sometimes the most trivial things hold special meanings, be it a blue monkey, a favorite pillow or even a beat up old nickel. PHINEAS, if you had a dog for several years and didn’t cry at it’s loss, see a doctor. You’re emotionally stunted and hiding it behind the supposed fact you have testicles. That alone makes you male, but certainly not a man. A man could understand the emotional attachment a child has to a favorite possession. Thank God his mother kept looking. The boy will, as most boys do, outgrow the monkey in a year or two more. But if he saves it in a box into his adult years it will bring him fond memories, one of which was how much his mother cared and kept looking for that monkey. No matter what future doubts he may have about his mother’s love, that monkey will remind him of the depth of her love and how important his happiness was to her. The macho types here can go fondle their power tools and pretend they’re men.
  
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RickWS
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:52pm
I’m syical and hateful. I blame living nearly four years under an Obama administration, but I’d have paid a grand for those two Pugs to tear that blue monkey to shreds…

If that kids doesn’t grow up whistling show tunes on Fire Island I’ll be shocked.

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- PhineasJWhoopee
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:12pm
  This story didn’t make me cry but you sure made me laugh.
  
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- Niferno
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:19pm
  What’s wrong with you?? He’s a little boy.
  
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- FREEDOMoverFEAR
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:11pm
  Niferno are you a woman?
  
  Boys need to grow up to be tough men so they can do hard work and be mentally tough to make difficult decisions. How do you raise a boy to be tough? Do you coddle him until he’s 18 and then expect him to one day miracously turn into a man? Or do you slowly become tougher and tougher on him until he is 18 and he acts like a man? It’s tough for women to do this that’s why I asked if you are a woman.
  
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Jon George
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:51pm
Give me a break, I just must be one of those cold harted Republicans.Where was Eric Holder when you need him most. I say with all that drama I would stick a GPS RFI tracking chick in that chimp.

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shakedowncrews
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:49pm
And the “Best Mom in the WORLD” award goes to…. Liam’s mom!

Fact is stranger than fiction, and there’s a funny child’s book in this story…Ah-ah’s return home

Poor little guy, but I bet he keeps that silly little monkey for the rest of his life

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:04pm
  What are the odds of this? What would have made his mom decide to look, after 3 years, for a blue monkey at that exact moment he was on there? It has to be more than just coincidence. You’re talking about astronomical odds that can’t be explained as just chance.
  
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MaxMagician
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:34pm
I really hope this kid is home-schooled because he’s going to get SO picked on when he goes back to school.

Sweet story, though.

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tsnorquist
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:19pm
Florida also has his other orange monkey…. he goes by “Charlie Crist”. Can we please send him back to you as well.

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- dsm
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Now that’s funny!!
  
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- BloodSweatandTears
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:40pm
  L=o=l !!!!
  
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theamericanvision
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:57pm
2009.. Okay, so it wasn’t the Bush administration. There’s gotta be a way to blame it on him! There’s a movie in this, I want to know what happened between Colorado and Florida!

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- t00nces2
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:19pm
  I would hate my parents the rest of my life for posting that video!
  
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theamericanvision
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:51pm
So, he lost it during the Bush administration! I’m just saying…

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piper60
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:33pm
I’d love to read about how the monkey got from where it was lost to where it was sold.

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BloodSweatandTears
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:02pm
I want to know the rest of the story…sniff.

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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:58pm
Still some sweet stories out there.

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MadenNZ
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:53pm
Oh darn, *sniff, reaching for my tissues, hooonk!!* A sweet moment for this boy to be reunited with a cherished toy. Good on ya mum and dad, for persevering in your search for Ah-ah, a great demonstration of love for your child. Cheers!

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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:52pm
We all have a stuffed monkey = B. Hussein Obama. Lets hope we DON’T get him back this November.

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squonk1pb
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:49pm
You got me, too. Loved it. Welcome home.

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zman173rd
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:49pm
I can’t beleive I got watery eyes over this. I had every intention of laughing off this girly story. Ridiculous that as I was reading the story I starting to tear up. Cripes I’m getting to be an old wussy.

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- TexasHunter
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:55pm
  Tell me about it.. Right there with ya. Not only that had to show a buddy and made me tear up twice!
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:25pm
  This brought a tear to my eye. Fatherhood has made me a softy. What a great story and what a great mother for never giving up on her child
  
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- MOLLYPITCHER
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:31pm
  I know exactly what you’re saying. Didn’t even cross my mind that I would tear up. But that kid looked so much like my boys, I couldn’t help it. The older I get the less I care how silly I am for crying over stupid things like blue monkeys.
  
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- FREEDOMoverFEAR
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:24pm
  Hopefully America doesn’t collapse because if you guys are this mentally weak you’ll have a tough time adjusting to becoming compeletly self reliant.
  
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lynda1276
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:47pm
ok- i’m crying

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Jezreel
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:44pm
I loved that. It would be good to know how it ended up in Florida.

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momrules
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:40pm
Maybe I’m just emotional today remembering 9-11 and watching videos of that tragic day but yes, this reunion of a little boy with his treasured childhood friend brought more tears to my eyes.

Thanks Blaze…….

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- FREEDOMoverFEAR
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 5:14pm
  You’re the epitomy of why women shouldn’t vote. How could you send men to war and make difficult decisions when you mentally break down watching a ten year old boy act like a girl.
  
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- Duddio
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:02pm
  Freedom,
  
  You need an emotional enema! God has created us with emotion, just as He displays emotion in the Scriptures. The difference between a man and a woman is that a man can more easily stuff his emotion in a little box to stand up and do the difficult things he has to do, like war, work, and sacrificing for his family.
  
  However, God gave us relationships and the tenderness of woman to make us human again after we have had to do the difficult things in life. This young man expressing his heart is not effeminate, it is a part of learning how to manage the heart. When he is a man, his wife and daughters will be glad he has a tender side, even though he can be strong for them to work for them and protect them as well. Something you should learn or your family will suffer from your cold, closed heart.
  
  One emotion does not define the whole person, we are much deeper than that. Step out of the shallows, kid, God gave you a bigger heart than you are displaying here.
  
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- MOLLYPITCHER
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:05pm
  @FREEDOM
  You’re an idiot. You can be tough, and still have human emotions.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:37pm
  Freedomoverfear………Wow! What a diatribe against me and all women because we can shed a tear over a tender moment.
  Of course I don’t know what caused your dislike for women but trust me when the tough need to get going women are always there. Do you think all of the real men in the world were raised by only men? No, they had Mothers. Mothers who could be tender but also strong. I was a strong Mother as was my Mother and her Mother before her.
  You should be grateful for us………the strong and tender women.
  
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blackyb
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:38pm
I don’t know what to say. Even I am about to cry. That little boy is so very pitiful.

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FaithfulFriend
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:33pm
Oh, the glorious tears of love, family and friends. Even the little blue stuffed ones.

The stuff of life… ain’t it grand!

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Gonzo
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:33pm
Reminds me of when Wango got his Che Guevara doll back. Brings a tear to my eye.

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- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:56pm
  That was funny before I looked to see who Wango is. Now i’m lmao!!
  
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- AnOregonian
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Brilliant
  
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