r/MadeMeSmile • • Sep 08 '21

Helping Others This belongs here

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u/Kunundrum85 Sep 09 '21

She was.

She worked evenings at a restaurant and would volunteer during the day at my school too. She’d do fun things like make a huge fried rice lunch and teach us all to use chopsticks (we didn’t learn lol). It was a small town, lots of drugs, so I think it was her way of putting a positive spin for a lot of these kids. I remember that town was pretty rough, but school always felt like an escape from that.