One thousand & forty seven dollars

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What have you done, you lovely wonderful people?

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Earlier this month I asked for and began receiving donations to help a young high school student named Z.

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I said I hoped to raise $ 1000 so she could have an emergency fund to help with a place to live, food, clothes, & transportation while she finished high school and worked to start college next year.

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Thank you so much. Thank you so very very much.

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I hope you know how I feel to have received contributions FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, your hands & hearts reaching out, trusting me to extend your collective kindness to one child in need. I dis not simply receive money. It was so much better than that. I received love, caring, faith, hope, prayers, blessings. I felt every single wish and dream.

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I won't name names because not one of you helped to be applauded. You are all secret angels. That's what you are. It doesn't matter if you sent cash or prayers: it all matters equally.

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Yesterday my daughter Jessica and my son-in-law Mike asked me how close I was to $ 1000. When I told them, they smiled and Mr. Ryan, still age 3, handed me bills, enough to top my goal. They had cashed in their coin bowl and gave the proceeds to help Z.

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Oh my. My my. What amazing power we have together. I am humbled and grateful and surprised and delighted. I want you to be all that too. You deserve to feel like this too.

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Soon I will ask Z's school counselor to play this forward. It will be an anonymous gift from amazing people, with a few strings attached. Z will be required to work with an adult to manage the money, to set up an emergency fund, to use at least some of it for her immediate needs ( starting with a new winter coat).

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Thank you, thank you each of you. Please let this be a gift to yourself. We raised $ 1047.00.

But we raised more than money.

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We raised alot more than money.

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Love

kj