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'Suddenly alive again': The heartbreaking joy of finding a deceased loved one on Google Maps street view | IMAGE.ie
I look at my mum’s old house on Google maps street view, the house where I grew up. It says ‘Image captured May 2009′. There is a light on in her bedroom. It is still her house, she is still alive. I am still visiting every few months on the train to Bodmin Parkway. Her little pink car will still be in the garage, but I will have taken a taxi from the station and when it arrives she will be standing in the doorway, smiling and waving, smaller than the last time I saw her.
I take a screen print of the house, with the light on, because it won’t last forever and one day the Google van will go back down that street and replace her house with someone elses’ and though there may be a light on in the window, it won’t be her.”
These are the heartbreaking words of writer Sherri Turner who started a viral thread on Twitter about how bittersweet it is to happen across an image captured by the Google maps van that showed a time when someone you loved was alive.
It’s prompted an outpour of other similar stories of joy, and of heartbreak.
I look at my mum’s old house on Google maps street view, the house where I grew up. It says ‘Image captured May 2009′. There is a light on in her bedroom. It is still her house, she is still alive. I am still visiting every few months on the train to Bodmin Parkway. Her little pink car will still be in the garage, but I will have taken a taxi from the station and when it arrives she will be standing in the doorway, smiling and waving, smaller than the last time I saw her.
I take a screen print of the house, with the light on, because it won’t last forever and one day the Google van will go back down that street and replace her house with someone elses’ and though there may be a light on in the window, it won’t be her.”
These are the heartbreaking words of writer Sherri Turner who started a viral thread on Twitter about how bittersweet it is to happen across an image captured by the Google maps van that showed a time when someone you loved was alive.
It’s prompted an outpour of other similar stories of joy, and of heartbreak.
