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The way her hands shook.
The way people looked at her like she was trash for being short a few dollars.
It hit me that her “last demand” wasn’t about the money.
It was about what I’d do with it.
Not just for us, but for others.
I used to think you had to wait until your life was perfect and stable before you could help anybody.
But that day in the grocery store, my life was anything but stable.
I helped anyway.
And somehow, it came back to my front door in an envelope with my name on it.
So yeah.
Three days later, the clerk showed up with her final request and the keys to a different future.
Now it’s on me to live up to the kind of person she thought I was.
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