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it's unbelievable, so that same day I've made 3 different decisions, I decided to focus on the fact that
there was food what a concept
i like that, but what change my life was the meaning I gave it. i decided that day
that what this means
is that strangers care
and if strangers care about me and my family I decided I was gonna care
care about strangers
and that completely changed my life I promised myself
someday, I'll do well enough to do this for other families like it was done for me
I didn't wait till I was, you known, wealthy to do it
I did my first one when I was seventeen, i remember i was 17
i had my own car, i had some money and i decided to go on the greatest shopping of my life
at that point
i decided i was gonna shop for two families for Thanksgiving I was gonna do
what it was done for me so many years before
it was the most euphoric experience I took two baskets
I went to the manager of the place I told him what i was gonna do
I said I want you to give me a discount you'll be my partner
he gave me 10%, cheap *** !
right but was so cool I got two of everything right because I wanted to give
food for 2 family for 2-3 days and to have an
unbelievable feast then I called this church
in the barrio area and I said listen I wanna go take care of some families that
are too proud to come to the church and get food
so they might suffer, so can you recommend some families ? they gave me two families
so then I wrote a note because I thought you know what
I'm gonna put an old jeans and a t-shirt and I'm gonna deliver this, I'm not gonna get the acknowledgment
but I do wanna see their faces, right, so I'll go as the delivery boy which is easy i look like one
but I wrote this note, i didn't want them to get upset like my father did
so I wrote this note and i said " this is a gift from a friend
please know that you're loved I want you to have an extraordinary thanksgiving you deserve it
please accept this gift and I put under it, I said
if you can Someday do well enough to do this for one other family
and pass on the gift then i put, love, a friend then I realize I was going to an area
that was more Latino and I don't speak Spanish so t thought
I got a friend to write on the back in Spanish so I can flip it around if there was a challenge
so I got one of my buddy's old van and put all the groceries in
and I drove to this house