A mystery solved (5 photos)

 

 

Faithful SooToday readers will recall us telling you last week how the Arnold Mackinac Island Ferry was looking for the owner of a captivating doll found in one of its parking lots.

 

Tonight, we're pleased to tell you that the doll's owner has been found.

 

She's three-year-old Addison Drake of Windsor, Ontario, shown in a family photo taken before her precious doll went missing in July.

 

Addison's mom located the missing doll today through Facebook.

 

She's "just flabbergasted" at all the attention the little doll's been getting via social and traditional media, Heather Tamlyn, sales and marketing manager at Arnold Mackinac Island Ferry, tells SooToday.

 

Mom also can't believe it took until now for the news to reach her.

 

Ferry employees had given the name Dolly to the doll but it turns out her real name is LIttle Addison.

 

The doll was purchased as a travel buddy for Addison.

 

When Little Addison went missing in July, Addison wasn't told that her doll was lost.

 

She was told that Little Addison was still on vacation.

 

That vacation will come to an end later this week.

 

Tamlyn says the doll has become such a celebrity that she's reluctant to just toss her into a mailing carton.

 

She's trying to arrange for someone to travel to Windsor to personally deliver Little Addison to Addison.

 

The nearly famous Dolly has been claimed!

Her person is three-year-old Addison of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Turns out that Dolly's real name is "Little Addison" and she was purchased for Addison as a travel buddy.

Dolly was found in the Arnold Mackinac Island Ferry Mackinaw City passenger dock parking lot in July.

She spent time in the shuttle bus, the valet booth and ticket office and went unclaimed.

Staff worried that a little person was out there missing Dolly and decided they needed a way to #helpdollyhome.

Along the way they've made a scrapbook of #dollysMIadventure via photo album on the Arnold Mackinac Island Ferry Facebook page.

And now Dolly's next adventure begins as she returns home to her person.

We cried tears of joy when we received the message from Addison's mom.

She even sent photos of Addison and Little Addison together to assure us that this Dolly was indeed hers.

My heart is so full right now.

What an incredible honor to be able to reunite the travel buddies.

The entire Arnold Mackinac Island Ferry crew is over the moon that Addison and "our dolly" will share many years of adventures ahead.

- Heather Tamlyn, sales and marketing manager.

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