Gabrielle and her mother's original photo was clicked 13 years ago.
This one will make you want to give your mom a tight hug. A teen's tweet with two pictures with her mother taken years apart has gone crazy viral online. Both photos show the teen hugging her mom as she lifts her up. However, one picture was taken back she was in kindergarten and the other was taken at her high school reunion more recently. The tweet has collected over three lakh 'likes' and more than 78,000 retweets since being posted on June 5.
"First day of kindergarten to graduation and my mom is still as proud as ever," says Twitter user Gabrielle on the micro-blogging site.
According to
Today.com, Gabrielle and her mother Lizzette Yowell's original photo was clicked by a photographer with a local newspaper 13 years ago.
"My mom had breast cancer 23 months ago, so there was a chance that she couldn't have been here for my graduation,'' Gabrielle told
Today.com. "That's what made this extra special. She's always been there for me."
Of course Twitter loves the pictures.
Another similar tweet of a teen who recreated an older picture has gone viral. This one has been posted by Twitter user Madeleine. It shows her and her parents recreating her mother's high school graduation photo at Madeleine's high school graduation.
"Yeah that's right, we made it TOGETHER," she says on Twitter. Posted on June 2, the tweet has received over 3.2 lakh 'likes' and more than 76,000 retweets.
According to
InsideEdition.com, Madeleine Tarin was barely two-years-old when the original photo was clicked. Madeleine's mom Jacqueline Tarin had had her when she was 16.
"I've had this photo ever since I was younger and I just kind of looked to it as an inspiration," Madeleine told
InsideEdition.com. "I wanted to recreate it because at the end of the day, I graduated and my parents are so proud of me and I'm so proud of them and everything they've done for me."
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