From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankarvedantin. This is my unsung hero,

stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

I would like to thank my unsung hero.

I do not know her name.

And all of a sudden I look up and this hand slides two warm chocolate chip cookies

across the desk.

To this day, it was one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me.

Today's story comes from Lila Cleavy. One gray winter morning, Lila started the trek from her boyfriend's house in Ann Arbor, Michigan, back to her college about an hour away.

At the start of the drive, she stopped to get coffee and gas up her car.

And I went to pull out of the gas station and because it was so gray, I thought how I had looked and I did not look well and I slammed into another car. I completely t-boned it. The car was a silver gray. So I like to think it blended into the

skyline, but I also know a lot of it was also mean. I was not being careful about it. I was young, I felt invincible.

I know that I blacked out for 10 or 20 seconds and then I came to.

My glasses had flown off, but that I actually didn't even realize for a half hour because I was so in the zone. I had such high adrenaline.

So after I came to I got out of the car. The car I hit was like 30 feet away. I walked over and I was really

freaked out because her entire driver's side was slammed in. This was immediately terrifying because I knew someone was sitting there

and that meant someone was probably hurt. But the driver is standing next to the car and she

looks okay when I first look at her and she

seems more concerned about me because I'm crying like a baby because I was 19 this

was such a scary thing that had happened and I was the one who did it so

you know in some ways I should have been responsible and I was very apologetic but I

was also just like a baby in that moment and this

woman this angel instead of yelling at me thinking I was entitled thinking I was

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