A nursing student’s tribute to her late mother is tickling funny bones on TikTok.
In a now-viral video, Kayla Menoscal, 20, films herself smiling as she walks to meet her father, Dave, and his girlfriend, Maria.
“Strategically wearing my dead mom’s perfume to visit my dad and his new gf,” Menoscal wrote on the clip. She then proceeds to lip synch along to Fleetwood Mac’s “Silver Springs” haunting lyric “You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you.”
“I always wore my mom’s wedding band around my dad and his new wife (who he started dating 2 months after my mom died),” one person wrote in the comments.
Other reactions included:
“The way I would never do this to my father.”
“Iconic.”
“I pray my daughter slays the same way.”
“Let the man live and love again.”
“You are so insanely real for this.”
“Fighting the urge to send this to my kids. Hopefully the algorithm does it for me.”
“As a fellow member of the Dead Mom Society, I commend this post.”
Sue Menoscal, a teacher, died of cancer in 2022 at age 57. She exclusively wore Coach’s floral Poppy fragrance.
“When I put it on, it makes me see her face so clearly,” Menoscal tells TODAY.com. “It’s as if she’s right in front of me.”
Dave Menoscal shares frequent photos and tributes on Instagram to his late wife.
"Susie, I keep watching for you to come through the door so that I know it’s all a bad dream," he wrote in part, earlier this year. "I still hide my tears when I say your name. the pain in my heart is still the same although I smile and seem carefree there’s no one that misses you more than me."
Menoscal, who attends school in Boston, says she was “freshly 18” when her mom passed away.
“She was awesome,” Menoscal says. “I feel like she really gave me the tools I needed to be an adult and to be OK without her. And I am so grateful for that.”
Menoscal is also grateful to Maria, who she says makes her dad “really happy.”
“I feel like my video came off way more malicious that it was meant to,” Menoscal says. The good news is that Maria wasn’t offended.
“My dad and her both thought it was hilarious,” Menoscal says. "They couldn't stop laughing."
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
