Bucks Co. Girl's Beloved Minnie Doll Has Been Found

LEVITTOWN, PA — There's a happy ending to the Bucks County search for a missing Minnie Mouse doll.

The missing Minnie — which has helped comfort a local girl through 40 brain surgeries and other health troubles — was found Tuesday evening after a search that got local law enforcement, and many others in the community, involved.

"UPDATE!!! WE HAVE MINNIE!! WE HAVE MINNIE!!" Niki Ramirez, of Levittown, wrote on Facebook. "Thank you for all the shares and prayers. We appreciate each and every one of you! This was one of the worst couple days. There were so many tears shed by all of us."

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Ramirez had reported that the well-loved doll, owned for years by her daughter Bryanna, had last been seen Saturday when the family was eating at the Chick-fil-A on Horizon Boulevard near Neshaminy Mall.

Bryanna was born with a condition that causes her brain to be pushed down into the spinal canal. Throughout her dozens of surgeries to deal with the condition, Minnie has been Bryanna's constant companion, Ramirez said.

In the end, Ramirez said, Minnie was found in a pile of clean clothes in the family's home.

"These last couple days have been hell to say the least," Ramirez wrote. "We all have been crying non stop! Bre had stopped eating and sleeping since Minnie had gone missing. She went into a depression because she didn't have her Minnie.

"We have cried ourselves to sleep every night and prayed that Minnie was found. I, as a mother, went to the depths of the Earth to do what any parent would do to make their child stop crying."

Ramirez thanked local police, the Chick-fil-A and others for helping with the search.