A girl lost her teddy bear at Glacier National Park. A year later, it’s back home

It was every kid’s worst nightmare: While on a hiking trail in the fall of 2020, 5-year-old Naomi Pascal lost her beloved teddy bear. But unbeknownst to either Naomi or her parents, she and her bear were destined for a happy ending.

Naomi and her parents, Ben and Addie Pascal, were walking the Hidden Lake Trail in Montana’s Glacier National Park in October 2020 when they lost Naomi’s beloved bear, “Teddy,” according to a Facebook post from the park. And Teddy was not just any bear. Teddy was the first gift Naomi’s parents gave to her before her adoption. It was 2016, and she was still living at an orphanage in Ethiopia at the time.

“She had Teddy before she ever met us,” Ben Pascal said in an interview with NPR.