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- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11310783
This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom’s tombstone
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11310783
This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom’s tombstone
This little girl opened a lemonade stand as a way to honor her mother and cope with her death, and her family and community rallied around her. There’s nothing in here indicating they couldn’t afford a tombstone, or that a tombstone was something the family even wanted before the girl came up with the idea. The community rallying around this girl is heartwarming, not orphan crushing.
Typically if a family wants and can afford a tombstone they buy one. This girl lived with her single mom and grandmother and her mom’s goal was to one day buy a house. Those are not strong indicators the family was doing well financially, nor is the community donating money to “help out.”