Karen Lowton, a professor of sociology of ageing & health at the University of Sussex, took to Facebook to tell the world about what she had experienced that day.
Karen, who lives in Orpington, was on her way to a meeting in London, and her poppy pin had dropped from her coat.
After realising she’d dropped it, she noticed a poppy seller in her hometown of Orpington.
‘I asked if I could just have a pin and went to pin my poppy back on my coat any-old-how,’ she tells Metro.co.uk.
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