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Susan Hafter, town clerk of Malone, New York, recently received an envelope with a Colorado postmark that contained a $100 check and a note. Hafter initially wondered, "What in the world it this?" But the note, which she thought "was so sweet," made it clear.
The check and note were from Colorado resident Ruth Buck, 84, whose family had lived in Malone during the Great Depression. In the early 1930s, as a 13-year-old student with five brothers and sisters, she struggled to read what teachers wrote on the blackboard because she needed eyeglasses that her father could not afford.
At the time, some towns (including Malone) tried as best they could to provide assistance to struggling families. Someone (Buck does not know who) requested that city officials arrange to have her fitted for eyeglasses. The ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Gratitude.(The Goodness Of America)