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This missing ice cream is melting a lot of hearts.
A Boston bakery is searching for its lost mascot Swirly — a giant plastic vanilla soft-serve cone.
Swirly, who stood proudly in front of Flour Bakery on the Boston Common, has been missing since the fall.
“It was out for probably a month or so, and then one day it just disappeared,” the sweet shop’s co-owner, Joanne Chang told WBZ NewsRadio.
“Everybody wants to see Swirly come home.”
At first, the James Beard Award-winning pastry chef thought it may have flown away during heavy winds, according to NBC Boston.
However, ever since her employee spotted what looks like Swirly just over a mile away — in a dorm window at Emerson College — she believes it may have been stolen.
“She looked up and in the dorms was Swirly, or we think [it was],” Chang explained to the outlet.
Chang even took to Facebook to make a plea for Swirly’s safe return.
“He was possibly spotted in a nearby dorm window looking down longingly at home and we have reason to believe he may be confused about where he is,” she wrote in the post, which included a photo of the dorm window displaying the lookalike cone.
Chang just wants the beloved mascot back, is offering a reward from the shop — which peddles pastries, sandwiches, cookies, cakes and soft-serve ice cream — and promising she’ll ask no further questions.
“To anyone who is temporarily sheltering him: thank you for protecting him this winter,” she continued in the post.
“Please return him safely, no questions asked, in exchange for baked goods and our eternal gratitude!”
WBZ NewsRadio reached out to Emerson College, and a spokesperson there said that “while we cannot confirm that the item seen in the dorm window is the cone commonly known as Swirly, we encourage anyone with information about Swirly’s whereabouts to come forward.”
Chang has hope the sour saga will have a sweet ending.
“I honestly think people want a feel-good story, and this has the potential to end really well,” she said.
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