A woman is going viral after sharing the sweet gesture her 98-year-old neighbor made after she moved into her new home: walking a cake over to her house to welcome her to the area.
In a video posted to TikTok, Kelly McDuff can be seen on the verge of tears as she displays a chocolate bundt cake with white frosting before panning the camera up to her window, where the neighbor who dropped off the cake can be seen walking back to his home.
“We just moved into a house and my 98-year-old neighbor just dropped off a cake to welcome us to the neighborhood,” McDuff, 27, wrote in the text accompanying the video.
“He’s lived here for 52 years and ‘hopes we love it as much as he has,’ ” McDuff added.
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Speaking to PEOPLE, McDuff — who lives in Richardson, Texas — says she and her fiancé Garrison moved into their home in early June.
The neighbor, she adds, “brought the cake over” just a couple of weeks later.
McDuff then returned the gesture. “I brought him a lemon pie the day after and he loved it,” she says.
She shared more on TikTok, saying she was “excited” to bring her neighbor the pie so she could learn more about him.
In that video, she shared the moment she brought the pie — along with her contact information, so they could stay in touch — to his doorstep.
“Bless you, sweetheart, I love lemon pie,” the man could be heard saying in the background of the video. “You didn’t have to do that, but I’m just delighted you did.”
Back home at her house, McDuff said in the video: “I have no words. I am on cloud nine and will be recovering the rest of the week.”
She added that, for those who were just as impacted by the man’s kind gesture, it’s worth it to reach out to neighbors.
“Go meet your neighbor,” she said. “Go knock on their door, bring them some cookies.”
