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Acts of kindness saved her day

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Contributed by: BRIGHTMAN BROCK/YOURHUB.COM on 7/24/2008

Her car trouble was frightening one rainy Saturday night in May.

Several acts of kindness later, Hobe Sound resident Dawn Lepore's desperation had turned into relief.

This lady and 2-year-old granddaughter Elena were spared a little misery, and she'd like to say thanks.

If only she could find the folks that helped her.

Good Samaritans are still out there, she said last week, insisting it was some "good" that came from a summertime incident on our Treasure Coast roadways.

"It had just finished raining and I was pulling into a gas station at Indian Street and Kanner Highway," she said. It was about 9 p.m.

"I just turned too sharp and went up on the curb and some glass."

But what she didn't see automatically was that the front two tires of her Ford Explorer were on grass and the rear set on the pavement. She was spinning ... and going nowhere fast.

Then it just got worse.

"When I got on the grass with all four tires, instead of being able to go I started to go down - sliding down on the wet grass," she recalled.

Lepore's drama was witnessed by a man and two boys, she said, who chose not to help. Instead, they laughed, she said.

" 'If you think this is funny, why don't you help me?,' I yelled at them," she said.

Out of nowhere someone else arrived, though.

"A man came over and said, " 'It looks like you need some help,' " Lepore recalled further. "I had my 2-year-old granddaughter. I held the door open, and he went inside and unbuckled her and got her out," Lepore said.

Just as suddenly, a young man and his girlfriend came by and helped; and the young man helped take Elena to safety.

Then another "helper" arrived with a pickup truck and pulled them out of the messy grass created by the ordeal.

"So I went in the gas station there with my granddaughter," Lepore said. "They pulled me out in five minutes."

Regrettably, Lepore didn't get anyone's names, as is the case many times where "Good Samaritans" do the unexpected.

Her conclusion was telling.

"It was just that there are still so many nice people out there," Lepore said.

"When you have some people laughing at your problems. Well, one may have laughed at me, but three others came to my rescue. That's the good that came of it.

"The Good Samaritans are still out there."

Do you have a story to share about an act of kindness that someone did for you? Please post it to YourHub.com, in the "hub" of your choice. Or contact YourHub.com Managing Editor Brightman Brock at brightman.brock@scripps.com or call (772) 409-1331 or (561) 745-3311.

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