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🗓️ 19 March 2020
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Marianne McCarthy, of New Haven, Conn., shares the story of a stranger who led her to safety during a crowded concert.
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone. This is Yasminamer. And this is Andrea Aswahue and we're back with |
0:06.1 | another moment of kindness today. So remember we'll be sharing these with you |
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0:28.8 | Now here's this week's story. |
0:38.6 | My name is Marian McCarthy. I live in New Haven, Connecticut, and this is my story of kindness. It occurred on Friday, June 14th, 2019 at a sold-out death cab for duty concert at the College |
0:48.6 | Street Music Hall in New Haven, and I was pushed my way up front to general admission standing about 10 feet from the |
0:55.8 | stage and I began to feel very woozy and started seeing spots and I've only passed out twice in my life but I knew that I was probably going to go down. |
1:11.0 | So I was of course enmeshed in this crowd. It was loud. The music's going. The |
1:18.7 | crowds going. It was a great show, but I had to get out of there so I tried to make my way to the right |
1:26.0 | hand side that was the closest I could get to and all of a sudden someone stepped out of the crowd and said, are you okay? |
1:36.2 | And I said, I am definitely not okay. |
1:39.0 | And they said, grab my arm. |
1:40.5 | And I did. |
1:41.1 | I grabbed their arm. |
1:42.0 | And that's the last thing I remember. I woke up outside of the venue on the set of steel stairs sort of in the smoking section, two security guards staring down at me wondering you know what the heck had happened |
1:53.6 | and just passed out because I hadn't eaten all day. Anyway the point is I wanted to |
1:57.9 | share this story because I would always like to extend a thank you to the person who extended their arm and their kindness that night |
2:05.4 | because they certainly didn't have to. |
2:07.1 | It was a very kind gesture. |
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