Single Mom Gets Generous Offer From Complete Stranger — With 3 Conditions.

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It’s getting to be that time of year again: Shelves are stocked with backpacks, pens and pencils, and all those other supplies kids will need once the new school year starts.

Whether they’ll admit it or not, most kids actually look forward to this end-of-summer ritual because it means they get new stuff. But for a lot of parents, especially those who head single-income households, it’s a different story. Billie from Florida, for example, is raising her young son by herself. When she’s not working four jobs, she’s attending school full-time, which means money and time are in short supply… to put it lightly.

Seeking support from other single moms, Billie posted to a Facebook group geared toward women like her, and it’s there that her guardian angel read her story.

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This woman, whose identity remains a mystery, messaged Billie with a generous offer: she wanted to help two single moms out with their school supply runs – and Billie’s posts had caught her eye. She did have a few conditions, though.

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Stunned by the complete stranger’s kindness, Billie replied, “I am not good at accepting help. But I can’t even explain how amazingly this would help.”

Of course, she did her “due diligence”to ensure it wasn’t a scam or that accepting the woman’s offer wouldn’t put her or her son in danger. “I was a bit cautious of course, I stalked her online and made sure she wasn’t an ax murderer,”she wrote.

After everything checked out, Billie replied that she would indeed pay it forward someday. But as she was struggling to figure out why a stranger would do this for someone, the woman told the single mom a story.

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Because of this gift, the woman went on to graduate debt-free. After getting a “gut feeling” about Billie, she knew it was time to repay the good deed.

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This stranger went straight to work crossing off all the items on the second grader’s list, and added some other odds and ends that are necessities in every household!

I opened the boxes today. All of my sons school supplies and some extras. A new pair of shoes, which is awesome cuz I’m super thrifty and hardly ever buy brand new things. He is gonna be super excited.

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We still don’t know who this stranger is, or what it was about Billie’s posts that grabbed her attention. But when something like this happens, maybe that mystery is just part of the magic. Whoever you are, and whoever it was who paid off this stranger’s tuition, thanks for helping to shed more light in the world.

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