Story of love and sacrifice connected to viral Ducknana statue

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Story of love and sacrifice connected to viral Ducknana statue
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The surreal statues, which have duck heads attached to banana bodies, have inspired countless comments, store sell-outs, and a Ducknana meet and greet at a local park.

“So much panic buying going on,” he recalls the Reddit post saying. “Only two Ducknanas left.”featuring a picture of the surreal statues, which had duck heads attached to banana bodies, to his wife. So Montana responded to her husband’s message with “I want one.” And without even asking if she was going bananas or not, Luke rushed off to buy it as a surprise for her birthday.It was more than a metre tall, which made self-checkout a challenge, but transportation not una-peel-ing.

“The company was lacking,” Luke says of the trip home with the Ducknana buckled into the passenger seat of his small pickup truck.To appreciate why the Ducknana was riding shotgun, we need to go back to when Luke was disposing of bombs. “I decided to do the hardest, most meaningful thing that I could,” Luke says. “And for me that was joining the Canadian Army.”

After spending a decade travelling the world as a bomb disposal technician, including a seven-month deployment in Ukraine, Luke has retired and says his focus is now Montana.After being away for most of his wife’s birthdays, Luke hoped this gift would make her smile.“Immediately I said, ‘What is this?’” Montana says. “And he was like, ‘Dang it!’”

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