A woman from Leeds, in the UK, is trying to help her mother fulfill a lifelong dream — to travel the world. Cara Melia’s mom died young, at 51, without getting to travel the world as she had always hoped. So, Cara put her mother’s ashes in a bottle and threw it out to sea. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler explain what happened next.
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