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The rich and famous have been known to surprise people or "step up" in the face of need, from Oprah to Elvis to Cuba Gooding Jr., who spontaneously gave the Oscar statue they had just presented to him, to the actor who didn't win -- all of it in front of the world.
Not long ago, we told the story of a Connecticut woman who had just been diagnosed with life-threatening cancer at Yale New Haven Hospital. After the diagnosis, she had taken a walk outside the hospital, stunned, only to see her new car in the process of being towed. (She acknowledges she was nervous and parked in a time-limited zone.) "I said to the mounted police officer that if they towed my car in that moment I would know that I had no chance," she explained to me. The woman said the officer got off his horse, listened to her story about her diagnosis, told the tow truck to disengage, and offered his arm to escort her anywhere that she wanted to go.
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MUSIC:
- “Gne Gne,” Montefiori Cocktail
- “Central Nervous Piston,” El Ten Eleven
- “Sorry About Your Irony,” El Ten Eleven
Lori Mack and Jonathan McNicol contributed to this show.
