Girl's Missing Daddy Doll En Route Back To Atlanta From CT

ATLANTA, GA — Thousands of strangers have helped send a little girl's doll with a message from her deployed father back home. Kenley lost her Daddy Doll while flying with her mom, Arielle Saige Britton, from Hartford, Connecticut, to Atlanta.

Britton posted on Facebook and hoped folks might share. Thousands have including representatives from Bradley International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Delta Airlines. As of late Friday morning, no Daddy Doll, but no one was giving up.

Daddy Dolls was created in 2004 by two women whose husbands were deployed. Now it's grown to include dolls that keep families connected for whatever reason; adoption or bereavement, divorce or deployment, business or incarceration. What matters is "keeping families connected."

"Hi, I’m Kenley’s daddy doll. I go everywhere she goes because her dada is deployed. We were traveling back home yesterday and I seemed to have gotten lost somewhere between the Hartford Connecticut airport and the Atlanta airport. I’m not just any Daddy Dolls, I have a special good night message that Kenley’s dada recorded before left, that she listens to every night. I also have red and blue stars on the back. Her mom called and reported me missing to both airports and Delta but no one has found me yet. If anyone has more info or know someone that travels or works please share!"

Almost 4,000 people shared her Facebook post.

Friday afternoon, Britton contacted Patch to say that Daddy Doll was found!

"I just got a message from my friend who is also deployed with my husband that a friend from Delta found the doll," Britton said. "They're going to mail it out today."

And Kenely is all smiles. Britton sent this photo of her little girl to Patch.