WRITING PROMPT #8

In a World Filled With Hate, Let’s Talk About Kindness

Love Outshines Hate

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In the next two weeks let’s write about kindness.

Years ago I moved to California for a job. Something about the sunshine and my brother bugging me to move made me finally do it. A year and a half later, I was let go. I hadn’t done anything wrong, but sales had taken a major downturn for the company I was working for, so they were laying off people left and right.

While I was looking for a job, my severance and savings were running out, so my brother introduced me to a friend of his, Teresa Garces. The three of us met for lunch and by the time we were finished eating, Teresa turned to me and said, “You know, my daughter is in Spain. Why don’t you come to stay in her bedroom until she returns?”

I swear I heard the angels singing.

For the next few months, while I stayed at their house, I looked for work and kept her mother company during the day. They are Cuban…