A little ten year old girl woke up in a hospital after her house burned down. She looks for her family but they are nowhere to be found so she begins to cry. After a couple of days her grandmother shows up and she has never been so happy to see her before in her life. The little girl asks for her mom and her grandmother lets her know that she has to work. The little girl thinks that it is crazy that she is in the hospital but her mom has yet to come see her. A few weeks go by and she feels herself getting stronger but she still has yet to see her mom. On that day they decide to tell her that her mom died in the fire and the little girl becomes sick. They also tell her that one of her little brothers have died along with an aunt and a cousin. She wonders why they wait so long to tell her but she finds out its because they didn't want to chance her going into another coma. A week later she can walk again and she gets ready to leave the hospital with her grandmother. She realized that everything she has every owned has been destroyed and all the Christmas presents she just got are gone. Once the news got out that it was her, she recieved so much help from others. She was sent money and clothes from strangers to get clothes, friends of the family let her stay in their home. People she didn't even know helping her really warmed her heart and she felt loved. Even though she just lost everything seeing people help her without knowing her made her want to always help others. She is now a twenty-one year social work major at Washburn University and she plans to help people for the rest of her life.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-01-22/news/0301220145_1_smoke-detectors-space-heaters-university-of-chicago-hospitals
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