A Reddit.com thread asked users “What act of generosity has someone done for you?” One user, had an answer that touched many readers. In it, she describes be abandoned by her father on her first day of school, and receiving an unexpected gift at graduation. Read it below.
On September 14th, 1986, my dad dropped me off at boarding school and gave me a five dollar bill. I never heard from him again. He never paid my tuition bill.
So from the age of 14, I took every job I could get and worked my way through. At $4 an hour, I didn’t even come close to paying off my entire bill, but the school let me stick around because I was a model student in and out of the classroom.
We get to graduation. I opened my little diploma thing expecting to see a bill in five figures. Instead there was a note.
“Congratulations on your graduation. A group of us who believe in you and love you have taken care of your bill. We are proud to present you with your diploma.”
I later found out that one of my friend’s dad, a fairly well off dentist, went fund raising among his golf buddies because he was having none of my entering life at eighteen under crushing debt.
Simply priceless. In a world dominated by negative headlines and bad news, it’s great to see a beautiful story like this. Pass it on.
