Chick-Fil-A Employee Befriends Customer, Then Comes Home To Find House Completely Changed.

One of the core values of Landmark 13 is helping others in need, whether they’re at-risk youth, adults recovering from drug and alcohol addiction or orphans in Haiti. In fact, that’s where the “13”in the New York-based title insurance company’s name comes from: 13 percent of all transactions is donated to worthy causes.

Company president Brian Smyth put this principle into action several years ago, after getting to know Shekeel “Shack”Williams, a polite and friendly young man who works at a Chick-Fil-A in North Mount Pleasant near Charleston, S.C.


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“I was finishing up a drink and he came by and said, ‘Can I get you another drink?’”Brian recalled. After chatting for a few minutes, he got up to leave and Shack “was holding the door open for me and he gave me a hug.â€

They developed a fast friendship, and Brian soon learned that his new friend had been left developmentally disabled by neurological damage caused by a blood disorder.

“Judging by how happy and upbeat he is, you would never guess he suffers from recurring strokes and sickle cell anemia,”reads a post on Landmark 13’s Web site.


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Brian stepped in and helped cover some of the family’s mounting medical costs, and in February took on an even more active role. That’s when he and a construction crew tore down the mobile home in McClellanville where Shack and his family lived and began building them a larger home, complete with appliances and furniture.


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It’s a big step up from the tiny, two-bedroom residence that housed not only Shack and his mother, Tulanda, but also her two adopted nieces.


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“People respect him and he respects them and I always tell him, ‘Shack, treat somebody how you would want somebody to treat you,”said Shack’s mother, Tulanda Williams, as they stood outside their new home.

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“I thank God first of all, and thank God for my son,”she added.

“It’s like a blessing,”Shack agreed.

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