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In a world full of cynicism and negativity, some small but persistent acts of kindness by people can offer hope. A Twitter thread, which is now going viral, has shared one such story of a man who gives money to strangers in a hope of spreading the message of universal love.
On Sunday, Kevin Cate, an ad maker, tweeted a photo of an old man sitting at a restaurant table with a bunch of loose cash and small pieces of paper that had “Love every body” written on them.
As per Cate’s tweets, when Cate asked the man what he was doing with the money, the elderly said he has been giving away $1 and $5 notes to strangers since 2014. In the past eight years, he has given more than $13,000 (approximately Rs 10 lakh) to people he met at the Waffle House in Midway, Florida.
All the currency he gave away came with a note that said “Love every body”. When Cate asked him the significance of the words, the old man said that those were his mother’s last words to him and he aspires to spread her message in his own way.
The tweets on this Twitter thread went viral with thousands of likes and retweets.
https://twitter.com/Mmorris10Morris/status/1545958957596000257
https://twitter.com/CarrieSweet2017/status/1545971586326568965
https://twitter.com/MalekSturm/status/1545964628311670786
Commenting on the thread, a person wrote, “Thank you for taking the time to talk to this gentleman and sharing his story. He has no idea how many people his mother’s message has touched… and we didn’t get money or the note. We got the love his mama intended! What a legacy she left.”
