This heartwarming story comes out of New York City where a very generous man, who saw a woman selling roses, decided to buy them all on the condition she give them away.
Two years ago, video of the kind gesture on a subway train was shot and now thanks to a Reddit post it is making the rounds again. Amid the pile of sad news we hear about every day, it’s nice to see acts of kindness make headlines too.
In the clip, a suited gentleman tells the vendor that he will pay the $140 to buy all of the flowers. He hands her the cash, but instead of taking them he told her to give them out for free. She was so touched by his kindness and generosity that she began to weep.
Fellow rider Maria Lopez shot the sweet moment on her cell phone.
“[I think] she started crying from the relief of someone actually being generous,” Lopez told the Huffington Post. “This one little gesture of humanity is so huge. It’s a testament to the lack of love and lack of generosity in the world. I think people are yearning for that.”
The man, whose name has never been known to the public, told her not to cry that it was a happy thing and then he got off of the train.
“He was like an angel,” Lopez added. “He just disappeared.”
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