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16th December 2011

Anonymous donors pay strangers' layaway accounts →

The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.

He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.

“She told him, `No, I’m paying for it,”’ recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. “He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn’t, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears.”

At Kmart stores across the country, Santa is getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by impoverished parents.

Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register.

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    Despite things like this happening, people still continue to insist that only government can do good things. Baroo?
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    I’m doing this when I’m rich as fuck.
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    Reblogging because I post way too much cynical shit on here (which is admittedly because there are a lot of fucked-up...
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    I literally teared up at this, it’s so sweet.
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    If you’ve got money, this is how you do it.
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    This stuff makes me so happy. Sometimes I’m not ashamed to be a human being.
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    I wish I had the money to do what this woman is doing.
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