I am watching her show sobbing right now. Instead of her favorite things she gave away $1,000 a person to give to a stranger to pay it forward. The things people did are so wonderful and touching and snowballed so amazingly that as they tell the stories I start to bawl. Tears are running down my face, and my nose is all snotted up.
A woman's shelter in Atlanta got $200,000 from the $1,000. A family in Centralia who have a father with a brain tumor got $73,000--including paying off all the medical bills and a college scholarship for one of the kids. A hospital in Hawaii got bunch of air fare tickets so the families of the sick kids could fly from their islands to the hospital.
The stories are amazing. I wish I could stop crying. Or maybe I don't. This is fabulous. These people are just normal people, but when given the opportunity they all raised to the challenge and became extraordinary.
Where's Beebo?! There she is!!!
11 years ago
2 comments:
You should, um, probably stop crying eventually. That might freak people out.
How did 1,000 become 200,000?
They got corporations and other people to add more money in (including Target), and because Oprah's audience members were getting mad press at the time, it was quite easy to jump on their bandwagon.
Later in the show, one woman ordered pizza and paid for two pizzas with like $200 more then they cost. The delivery guys were hilarious to watch respond to that (they did it more then once). Oh, they had camcorders to tape what they did. And another woman just gave cash out in front of the local grocery store.
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