The young mother of three at the register cowered from the line of glaring eyes; her fumbling hands removed items from her cart when a gentle hand intervened.
Eighty-year-old Elaine, with a warm smile, pressed a ten-dollar bill into her hands.
Elaine’s been dead a century.
Stories of her have long faded.
But the generosity she bore that day spread from person to person all over the world,
its light growing brighter.
The Earth will never know a World War Three
all thanks to Elaine
and her ten-dollar bill.
