Father and Daughter Pay a Heartwarming Photo Tribute to Mom’s Memory

[Jazzy]

If you don’t want to cry today, we suggest you skip this one. That being said, for the love of all that is holy, please don’t skip this one! The tears are more than worth it when you hear the story behind these touching and at times heart-wrenching daddy/daughter photos.

This story begins with wife, mother and schoolteacher Ali Nunery and her husband Ben, who got married in 2009 and decided to take their wedding photos in the empty Cincinnati house they had just closed on. The photos are a beautiful, filled with all of that newlywed hope and joy that you can’t help but smile at.

But those smiles were far too short-lived. In 2011, Ben and their then 1-year-old daughter Olivia were forced to say goodbye to Ali, who was tragically taken from them by a rare form of Lung cancer.

We can only imagine how difficult the next two years, which Ben describes as “a rollercoaster of emotion,” have been for everyone that Ali left behind. But this November, the duo decided that they were ready to move out of the home they had shared with her, there was just one thing left to do.

The house had been, in a sense, christened by the wedding photos that Ben and Ali took there; it only seemed appropriate that they honor Ali’s memory by saying goodbye to the house in the same fashion, with now 3-year-old Olivia taking her mother’s place.

The resulting father/daughter photos — which were taken by Ali’s sister, photographer Melanie Pace — are equal parts touching and tear jerking. That same sense of hope and joy is captured beautifully in the photos, many of which are staged to look similar to the photos that Ben took with Ali.

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Incredibly touching photos. Both beautiful and sad at the same time.

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