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This UPS driver was in the midst of a very busy shift when the most amazing thing happened. He was delivering a package to a family and he stopped to wish the parents of a newborn baby boy well.

What started as a momentary act of kindness has since given way to a lifelong friendship. Jessica Kitchel and her husband Mack reside in Roswell, Georgia, with their children Charlie and Chancy.

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On this fateful day, the family was expecting a few packages to arrive and so they checked on their Nest camera. What they found will touch your heart.

“If this is a ‘it’s a boy’ house, I hope all is going well with your newborn. I had a child at around the same time you guys did, I just hope everything is going good, God bless, and Happy Holidays,” said UPS driver Dallan Harrell.

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Photo: Instagram/jesskitchel

Once Kitchel saw the video, she could not resist posting it on her Instagram. “It is really easy to focus on what isn’t going right right now with staffing storages but it was good to be reminded that there are still great people working hard every day for us! I really wish I knew his name but I hope he comes back and if he does there will be diapers waiting for him!” she wrote in the post.

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Harrell never could have guessed the impact that this moment of kindness would have.

Speaking with CBS 46, “Like most parents, in those first few weeks at home, it can feel isolating. The moment that he said that was a time I needed to hear that encouragement at the most important time. I was blown away that he would take a second to end his day to leave that message for me to see how I was doing, it just blew me away.”

“I just was so excited to talk to him and just thank him for what his message meant to me,” she continued.

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Thanks to social media, she was finally given the chance to do so. Jessica also found out that he had not had a baby shower yet. She posted a link to his baby registry and strangers pitched in to do the rest.

“Complete strangers. I wouldn’t know them from a can of paint. Just God’s vessels,” said Dallan to the news station. He also received a promotion on the job. “My life kind of turned around and changed overnight,” he says.

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Now, his goal is simple: to establish a lifelong friendship with this lovely family. “I don’t want it to be a one-time deal. Not a season, for sure, a lifetime.”

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