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Kind World

A Moment Of Kindness From Mallory

Kind World

WBUR

Kindness, Society & Culture, Profound, Personal Journals, Uplifting, Stories

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Listener Mallory Van Fossen tells us about the time a complete stranger came to her rescue after an accident.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. This is Andrea Aswahay. And Yasminammer. We know it's Friday, which isn't our usual kind world day,

0:08.0

but this isn't one of our usual episodes. So this season, we're going to be trying something new.

0:14.0

For the last few months we've been collecting your voicemails,

0:18.0

telling us about acts of kindness in your lives,

0:20.0

and we have received so many voicemails.

0:24.3

So keep them coming, by the way.

0:26.0

We're at 617 3556 350.

0:31.6

So as you know, part of our mission here at Kind World is to highlight the good that happens all around us every single day, regardless of how scary and hopeless it can seem out there.

0:42.0

We want to build a community of listeners who see. scary and

0:45.0

we want to build a community of listeners who see just how powerful kindness and compassion can be

0:48.0

and we want you to be a part of it.

0:51.0

So each Friday this season we're going to share with you a mini story of kindness from our listeners.

0:56.6

That's straight from our voicemail box to your podcast feed.

1:00.3

That way you can start your weekend off right.

1:03.0

And with that, here's Mallory Van Fauson in Baltimore, Maryland.

1:07.0

I was in a car accident about a year ago. I was hit while I was going through an

1:17.1

intersection someone ran a stop sign and hit the back passenger side of my car

1:22.2

and I went spinning around in the intersection.

1:26.1

And when I finally stopped to the car, I was having a panic attack and I wasn't really I didn't know what was going on I wasn't really

1:34.8

processing but I knew that I like was hyperventilating I couldn't breathe so I was just sitting in my

1:38.8

car like clutching the steering wheel and a man came up to my window who had seen the whole thing

1:43.2

happened and he crouched down and looked in the window and he's like honey you're

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