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Stranger picks up family's $211 Wal-Mart Christmas bill

12/27/2012

Here's a last bit of Christmas cheer to take you into 2013. Ruby Modlin was standing in line at an Altoona, Iowa, Wal-Mart when a fellow shopper jumped in line to pay her $211 Christmas grocery bill, swiping his credit card before she could stop him. The anonymous man pointed out his waiting wife and daughter and said they'd been scanning for a beneficiary and "picked" Modlin. They then walked away, leaving Modlin and her family in tears: "We were too busy crying, and the register people were smiling." [Source]

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