Off The RecordI Paid For An Elderly Woman’s Groceries -

Monica expects nothing more than a grateful grin as she helps a stranger at the grocery store. However, what starts out as a small deed of kindness subtly upends the life she had assumed she would accept and gives her a second opportunity she never would have imagined.With the resolve of a man twice his age, he wriggled in my arms and reached for the candy rack. He had that same sly gleam in his eyes that I was all too familiar with, and his tiny fingers were reaching for the sour worms.

Whispering, “No, buddy,” I moved him up on my hip. “Don’t even think about it.”

With large brown eyes and an air of innocence, my son looked up at me.

With a pout, he remarked, “But they’re sour worms, Mommy,”