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Last month, Courtney Crawford was working an early shift at a Starbucks in Little Rock, Arkansas, when she was surprised with an act of kindness from a customer. She says the woman seemed to be having a rough morning, so Courtney made an extra effort to lift her spirits. She managed to make the woman smile, and in return, she left a note for the barista.
"You were the first face I saw this morning and you really brightened my day," the note reads. "I'm sure you are exhausted because life, right? That's all of us. But you deserve to know you made a difference in someone's day today just by being kind." It was signed “the groggy woman at 5 a.m.,” and there was a $200 tip inside.
What this customer couldn’t have known was how much Courtney needed that money. Her mother passed away last year after battling cancer, so she’s facing her first Mother’s Day without her, and the tip will allow her to buy the urn for her mom that she previously couldn’t afford. She hopes to reconnect with the kind customer one day, but she says she’ll be thinking of her “because I will be able to look at my mantel every day and smile because my mom’s looking at me.”
