A Complete Stranger Saved This Mom
and Her 4 Kids but Wanted 1 Major Thing in Return
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After Tawny Nelson's car broke down at night in the pouring
rain with her four young daughters crying in the back, countless people just
drove by as she begged for help.
The single mother of four explained that things had been rough since her partner left — her vehicle was in such bad shape
that she only drove if absolutely necessary and her cell phone was
disconnected. She and her children desperately needed groceries so they made a
quick trip to the store. However, one of her girls accidentally left a light on
in the car and they returned to a completely drained battery. "I must have
asked more than twenty people in the course of two hours for a jump," she
wrote to Frank Somerville, which he shared on his Facebook page. "They all ignored me. Not even a no. [They] just
acted like I didn't exist."
As her newborn screamed, her 2-year-old cried from hunger,
and her 9-year-old desperately tried to help, Tawny described that she started
to break down herself. "I was bawling and felt like the worst Mom
ever," she recalled.
At that moment, a 74-year-old man with a bad limp knocked on
the window. He handed her a plate of food and bottles of water for her family
and let her know that a tow truck was on its way and that his wife was going to
drive them home. The next day, the gentleman returned to her house with a
mechanic and they made multiple repairs to her car.
After the kind stranger left, Tawny asked the mechanic if
she could set up a payment plan, but he informed her that the man had already
taken care of the bill.
"He said that the only payment the older man wanted was
for me to never give up and keep being an amazing mom," Tawny wrote.
"I've never cried so hard in my life. Things had been absolutely awful,
more so than I care to explain, and without knowing us or our situation this
kind man helped us in ways he will never know."
Tawny is grateful to the man for restoring her faith in humanity when she says she was falling apart. And while she knows
that she can never repay him — he wouldn't even take a hug — she hopes to one
day do for another what he did for her.
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