the most generous gesture I have ever received!

[LuLu550]

I work in a school and was co-advisor of our drama club with another woman. She knows I have lost more than $400 a month in child support over the last two months and am being sued by my Ex for "overpayment of support" to the tune of $10,000. She just walked into my office and signed over her portion of our stipend for doing the play...more than $500, saying I needed it more than she did and that she hoped it would help us to be able to have a better holiday celebration.
I am in shock and utter disbelief that anyone could be so generous...she has kids, too and worked just as hard on the play....

I just had to acknowledge her kindness and compassion!

[wryter2000]

1. Good for her!

Now, you'll both have fabulous holidays!

[Skittles]

2. let me guess

she is not a republican

[LuLu550]

3. yeah, you got that right!

Just another bleeding heart liberal....

[Skittles]

11. bless those bleeding hearts

me included :)

[Richardo]

4. Lovely story - thanks for sharing it...

...and have a great Thanksgiving! :-)

[DulceDecorum]

5. The beautiful thing about that story is

that EVERYONE who hears it feels good.
:grouphug:

[DeathvadeR]

10. hear , hear,

Good deeds make the world go round.

[GainesT1958]

6. Yes, Virginia, there once WAS a Santa Claus...

And his spirit lives on in that lady and her gift to you! Happy Thanksgiving; and thank God for people like her--she really sets the example! I'm glad she chose to set it by helping you.:D

B-)

[Rainbowreflect]

7. It is nice to know there are such giving people out there.

With all the bad news, thanks for sharing the happy.

[BiggJawn]

8. That's wonderful!

Thanks for sharing that with us. :-)

[VOX]

9. How utterly cool, LuLu!

Hearing about kind acts like this gives us all hope. So glad that you were on the receiving end of such a kind gesture.

Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving! :toast:

[geniph]

12. Last holiday season,

one of the poorer schools in the district I work for received a surprise gift from an anonymous donor. Inside were $100 checks made out to each teacher at the school, with a thank-you card and a note saying they were to use the money for their OWN holiday. It was an astonishingly generous and gratefully-received gift.

There are decent people in the world. Sometimes we forget that.