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Did Someone Accidentally Break a 4-Year-Old’s Heart?

Four bins were taken from Niantic River Road Saturday, perhaps by accident, with one holding a doll that is very special to a mother and her 4-year-old daughter. Can you help them out?

All Rachel O’Brien’s 4-year-old wants is her doll back.

On Saturday, O’Brien’s children put four pink bins, a chair and some bubbles outside on the corner of Ninth Ave and Niantic River Road to create a stand to sell bubbles. The kids went inside to grab some supplies for all of 10 minutes, and when they came back outside, everything was gone.

Inside one of those pink bins was a doll that Rachel O’Brien had as a child and passed on to her 4-year-old daughter. All O’Brien and her daughter want is the doll back.

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O’Brien is not sure if somebody took the bins because they thought they were put out there to take for free or if somebody just outright stole them. Either way, she doesn’t care, she just wants “dollie” back.

If you know anything, email paul.petrone@patch.com and we will get you in contact with O’Brien.  

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