Girl's balloon letter to deceased dad gets reply 436 miles away

AUBURN, Calif. (ABC News) - For her late father's Jan. 6 birthday, 16-year-old Ashlynn Marracino wrote him a letter and sent it floating on a star-shaped balloon.

One day later, Lisa Swisley stumbled upon the teen's touching request.

"I showed up at my restaurant and a customer handed it to me," said Swisley, who owns two restaurants in Auburn, California. "I noticed there was writing on it and I got very teary-eyed."

Ashlynn, a student in Whittier, California, had written a note to her father onto a balloon that traveled 436 miles to Auburn

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