After 6-year-old Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer, she hid love notes for her parents to find after she was gone.  Just before her sixth birthday, Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer and died in 2007.

But after her death, Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith, found hundreds of notes from Elena hidden around the house — in between CD cases, between bookshelves, in dresser drawers—little love notes from their sick daughter to comfort them.  According to her parents:

It just felt like a little hug from her, like she was telling us she was looking over us.

Elena left hundreds of notes, you can read some of the sweet, priceless notes from Elena over on Neatorama.com.  I cried when I read the story of Elena Desserich, it’s the sweetest, saddest story.