Teen Runs Out of a Store and Grabs an Elderly Lady. She Has No Clue That His Aunt Was Filming.
Summary:
A sudden mishap made one elderly woman feel the effects of her age. Luckily, one kind person helped her in an unimaginable way.
Introduction:
After driving herself to a convenience store in Georgia, one 81-year-old woman suddenly felt the impact of her age. Milly only wanted to buy a bottle of soda, but even a simple errand seemed impossible for her. After falling recently, she had hurt her back. This made even walking nearly impossible for her to do.
As Milly entered the convenience store possible, she was visibly struggling to walk into the store. Each step seemed to take forever. Instead of helping her, other customers …show more content…
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As Milly struggled to take each step, adult men walked by her without giving her a second look. She stumbled and nearly fell. Still, no one would help her. The only person who looked up as she stumbled was an 18-year-old high school student named Joshua.
For the last few years, Joshua had lived with his Aunt Francine. His parents had passed away in a car accident, so his aunt became his legal guardian. While he missed his parents terribly, his aunt had been a source of strength and courage for him. She had taught him her moral code, and he had grown into a remarkable young. On the weekends, he normally volunteered at a nursing home to prepare himself for college. If he could find the money, he wanted to become a doctor so that he could help people.
On this particular Sunday, Joshua was not volunteering at the nursing home. Instead, he was running errands with Aunt Francine. When he saw that no one was helping the elderly woman, he approached her and asked if she needed some help.
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Aunt Francine saw her nephew's kindness and had used her smartphone to film him. Tears came to her eyes as she saw the amazing man her nephew had become. While adults passed the poor woman by, he had taken the time to help her without being prodded or told to. She was so proud of her nephew that she filmed the entire thing through her tears.
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Waving good-bye, Milly slowly drove out of the parking lot. By the time Joshua returned to his aunt, she had stopped filming and hidden the phone. At home, Aunt Francine posted about the event on Facebook. She said, “You can tell from the video that the poor woman was injured. No one at the store would help her. Everyone walked around the elderly lady like she didn't even exist.”
After sharing the video on Facebook, Aunt Francine was surprised that it went viral. Everyone who saw the video was touched by the young man's kindness. The viral story eventually spread to the news, and a local station interviewed the