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'Another Grateful Soul' Anonymously Leaves Flowers Outside Marathon Sports

BOSTON (CBS) – A bouquet of flowers was anonymously left on the doorstep of Marathon Sports on Friday by someone expressing their gratitude to a business that was at the center of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Shane O'Hara, the manager of the Boylston Street store, posted on Facebook that he came into the shop Friday to find flowers and fruit at the doorstop with no name.

Marathon Sports Flowers
Flowers that were left on the doorstep of Marathon Sports. (Image Credit: Marathon Sports Facebook)

Instead, the flowers had a note attached that was signed "Just another grateful soul!"

Marathon Sports was at the forefront of the Boston Marathon bombing trial earlier this week as O'Hara took the stand during the opening day of testimony.

New video from inside the store was shown during the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday, showing the chaos that took place after the bombs went off near the finish line.

Related: New Video Shows Chaos After Boston Marathon Bombing

"The thing that haunts me are the agonizing decisions: who do you help first, who needs it more," O'Hara said during his emotional testimony. "That was never my role, to make that decision."

On Friday, O'Hara said he tracked down the flowers as likely coming from Brit at Lululemon Athletica, a yoga studio on Newbury Street.

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