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🗓️ 23 April 2020
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Becca Andrews had recently moved to New York City to pursue her acting dreams. One day, as she was riding the subway, she experienced a small act of kindness that would make a big difference.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone. This is Andrea Aswahay, producer and co-host of Kind World. How are you doing? I hope you're |
0:07.4 | hanging in there and finding comfort in whatever way you like, whether that's making art, singing, cooking, baking bread, playing animal crossing, |
0:17.5 | watching endless Netflix, I am right there with you. Today I'm in your feed to share this week's moment of kindness. |
0:26.8 | Remember that we'll be sharing these stories every Friday for the rest of the season. |
0:31.5 | So if you want to tell us your story, call us and leave a message. |
0:35.2 | We're at 617 353 6350. Now here's Becca Andrews with this week's story. |
0:48.8 | I was living in New York and it was my first year |
0:52.3 | of living in New York, so I was very broke I'm an actress and I was |
0:56.6 | working in a restaurant and it had been a hard year I was very lonely and depressed and I was on the subway and I was headed to my |
1:07.1 | restaurant job to pick up my paycheck and I was just kind of sitting against the |
1:12.2 | edge of the subway car, writing in a journal. |
1:15.0 | And my journal was kind of also where I like communicated prayer. |
1:20.0 | So I was just praying that, you know, I needed this paycheck that I was going to go pick up to be enough for a plane ticket because I wanted to go see my sister in Texas and to see my knees. That's all I wanted. I was like I don't need to be a |
1:34.4 | millionaire. I don't need to be successful. I just need the plane ticket to get out of |
1:39.2 | the city and I saw a hand reach down and give me a $50 bill. |
1:47.0 | And by the time I had stopped writing and registered |
1:49.2 | that someone just handed me a $50 bill and looked up, the subway doors had opened and the person had gone and I never |
1:57.3 | saw who it was and I just thought it was the most amazing thing in the entire world that |
2:02.3 | someone just had the money to give me and |
2:06.1 | didn't even want any credit for it. They just walked out the subway and didn't even give me |
2:11.4 | any sort of facial recognition and I was able to buy the plane ticket and it was wonderful. |
2:21.0 | Becca, thank you so much for sharing your story with us. |
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