‘This can’t be real’: Spring Lake woman gifted $10k after story of walking to work inspires many

SPRING LAKE, Mich. — Within hours after a Spring Lake woman shared her story of walking greater than an hour to work on a daily basis, strangers from far and wide started attaining out to assist. 

One of the ones other folks was once a person who was once so impressed by means of her adventure, that he made a donation that would assist exchange her lifestyles. 

“Oh my god,” mentioned Samantha Turcotte, with tears in her eyes, as she opened the beneficiant reward Wednesday morning. “I can’t believe it.”

On Monday, 13 ON YOUR SIDE spoke with Turcotte, studying about how she have been walking greater than 3 miles or an hour and a part to work on a daily basis, after an twist of fate that wasn’t her fault, left her and not using a automotive in early February. It was once one of her co-workers that tipped off the news. 

“I was never really wanting to ask people for money,” she mentioned. 

Turcotte mentioned so many other folks reached out to assist her after seeing her story, and even supposing they could not donate cash, they sought after to assist give her rides to work and even simply enhance, and for that she is very thankful.   

“It’s been really nice,” she mentioned, “but I never expected anything from people.”

“I just kept trying to stay strong, knowing that there are good people out there,” she added, “you’ve just got to be able to wait until they reach you.”

Turcotte mentioned in sharing her story, she by no means expected cash, or charity, however as a substitute, she simply sought after proportion her revel in in hopes of inspiring others who may fall on arduous instances.

Instead, she was once the one that impressed so many.

“When I saw her with those two kids, and I saw her smile, I said, this is a woman who is really living the role of mother, and she loves her children,” mentioned a person from Walker, who requested to stay nameless. 

“She couldn’t do that hour and half walk in the ice and snow if she didn’t have the love in her heart for those two kids,” he added. 

The afternoon after seeing her story, that guy got here to the WZZM news station, asking us to go alongside a beneficiant donation to Turcotte.

“You’re broadcast peaked my interest, and I thought, here I am sitting here, with no worries in the world,” he mentioned. “Your story about her opened up my heart by presenting the predicament that this lady was in, and I said I’ve gotta do something.” 

The gentleman requested us to ship a test to Turcotte for $10,000. On the topic line learn “love.” She opened it tomorrow, on Wednesday morning. 

“No…” Turcotte mentioned, together with her jaw dropped and tears falling from her eyes. “This is not real!” 

She could not consider it. 

“I actually just had someone from a dealership get a hold of me and say that if I could come up with some money, they’d have a vehicle for me,” Turcotte mentioned, retaining her face in her arms in disbelief. “And now I should actually be able to get something that doesn’t require a lot of fixing, because that was one of the struggles I was having.”

And despite the fact that he did not need to be concerned, the beneficiant donor had this message for her, pronouncing, “Samantha, I know it’s been a trauma for you, but I want you to know that there are people out there in the world who hold you very sacred. Jesus loves you, and God made us all to love one another.”

“I know I don’t know you, but I still love you, and I love what you represent,” he added, “and I can see that you are a great woman, and a great mother.”

With a automotive, Turcotte mentioned she’ll once more be in a position to simply get to work, see her 7-year-old son once more, and with a bit of luck make it to her daughter’s upcoming choir live performance.

“I feel like my insides are jumping,” she mentioned, with a grin on her face and tears in her eyes. 

“I think to myself quite often that I am so blessed,” mentioned the nameless donor, “and that I should share that blessing both physically and financially with those in need.”

“My goal in life, every day, is to bring a smile to somebody’s face,” he added. “If I’ve done that, then my day is complete.”

And there is not any doubt that he no doubt put a grin on Samantha Turcotte’s face.

“To this wonderful person,” she mentioned, getting choked up, “thank you. This means so much.”

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