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Discover CityViewNC.com's fresh updated look! | 13 whatever burden was upon my family. I was moved to tears in front of my bath- room mirror. I wrote back that his love was enough. "Send that money to people who really need it," I said. "Do you know who some of those peo- ple are?" he asked in round two of the exchange. Yes, I said, I knew some peo- ple who had been hit pretty hard and I knew of places where lots of people had been knocked slam out. Dana forwarded that email thread to every one of my college pals who had ever attended one of our three reunion events in Emerald Isle. He told them he was funding a small relief effort and he told them where he was sending that which he intended to send. He named me as the administrator. Within two weeks, there was a literal stack of postmarked letters (and one PayPal receipt) on my desk at New Town Apartments. ese men from my past with whom I had so long ago laughed and suffered and misbehaved and eaten Trees and Cheese entrusted me with distributing to strangers in pain the sum of $5,400. elbert lost most everything to Hur- ricane Florence; he got hundreds in cash for clothes and shoes. Jimmy had the roof torn off his double-wide and the interior soaked for hours; he got hundreds. Nina was buying clothes for children in Robeson County; unre- stricted cash was placed in her hand. A pensioned retiree in Spring Lake had vi- nyl siding ripped off his trailer; my Phi Delts paid for its re-installation. All the while, I enjoyed my unmerited status as Angel of eir Mercy benefitting people my guys never will know. As I think of my somewhat random and coincidental life-ever-aer enjoining with those good men so long ago, a fa- miliar reflection comes to me – I really thought that it was just a party. It was vastly more than that. FAYETTEVILLE'S DESTINATION FOR ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT | unique shops | galleries | restaurants | concerts | coffeehouses | tea shops | wine bars | brewpubs CityView due October 17, 2018 Ad size: 1/2 page vertical 4.5"x 7" Contact: Cool Spring Downtown District 910-223-1089 City Market At The Museum | Every Saturday Veterans Day Parade | Saturday, November 10 Fayetteville Veterans Day Proclamation & Inaugural Hometown Hero Award Celebration | Saturday, November 10 Carriage Tours of Olde Fayetteville | Saturday, November 10 A Dickens Holiday | Friday, November 23 Green Beret Jingle Jog | Saturday, December 1 Candlelight Loft Tours Downtown Fayetteville | Thursday, December 6 Carriage Rides with Santa | December 8-9 and December 15-16 FREE PARKING after 5pm and all weekend Parking deck on Franklin St. | City parking lots downtownfayetteville For our full calendar of Downtown events, visit our Facebook page. www.FayettevilleNC.gov

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