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Mum Didn't Sell Any Knitted Goods At A Fair, So Twitter Bought It All

Mum Didn’t Sell Any Knitted Goods At A Fair, So Twitter Bought It All
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Twitter showed a man some love after he tweeted about his mom struggling to sell her knitted wares at a craft fair.

On Nov. 26, Martyn Hett of Manchester, England texted his mom, Figen, to see how she was doing. He tweeted out her heartbreaking response:

The 28-year-old then mentioned his mom had a Depop page, which is similar to Etsy, where people buy and sell homemade goods.

A friend of Hetts bought a glove creature from his mother's Depop page: