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

Inside was a letter thanking me—not just for the money, but for treating her with kindness instead of shame. Then the letter took a turn. She explained she was adopted and had recently searched for her biological family. In the records, she found my name… and our mother’s name. The same mother I’d grown up with, who once told me she’d given up a baby before me.

The woman was my sister.

I called the number she left. We met the next day. Weeks later, a DNA test confirmed it—we were siblings. Now she and her baby are part of my life.

All because one night, someone was six dollars short at my register.