I Gave a Woman $6 to Help Pay for Baby Formula – the Next Day, My Manager Called Me over the Intercom and Handed Me an Envelope

“Our biological mother died a few years ago.

I’m sorry if this is how you’re finding out, in case no one told you.”

I already knew, but seeing “our biological mother” on the page hit differently.

“I didn’t know how to approach you,” she went on. “I found where you worked, but I was scared to walk in and say, ‘Hi, I think we’re related.’ I kept putting it off.

Yesterday, I came in to buy formula. I was exhausted.

I wasn’t thinking about anything except getting through the night.

Then I saw your name tag. Laura. I realized the woman ringing me up was the person from the records.

The one connected to Mary.”

I stared at that word until my vision blurred. She continued:

“I really was short on money. I didn’t plan that.

When I told you to cancel the formula, I felt like a failure. And then you reached for your own money.

You didn’t know who I was. You didn’t know we might share a mother.

But you still helped. In that moment, I knew something about you that no file could tell me.”

The last lines were short:

“I don’t expect anything. You don’t owe me a relationship.

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