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‘Without knowing us or our situation, this kind man helped us,’ says stranded mother of four

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(Facebook/Frank Somerville KTVU)

Parenting as a single mother can be tough, but when you’re a single mother to four (ages 9, 5, 2 and six weeks) and your car breaks down, it’s time to cue the waterworks.

That’s at least what Tawny Nelson ended up doing after unsuccessfully trying for two hours to get a jump for her car’s dead battery.

“When we got out of the store it was far after dark. And POURING rain,” she tells Frank Somerville of KTVU who posted the story on Facebook. “I must have asked more than twenty people in the course of two hours for a jump. They all ignored me. Not even a no. Just acted like i didn’t exist.”

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At that point Nelson as well as her kids began to fall apart.

“My 5 year old was melting down. My newborn SCREAMING, my two year old crying she was hungry, and my oldest desperately trying to help. I was bawling and felt like the worst mom ever.”

But then she got a knock on her window.

“An older gentleman (he was 74) with a cane and a bad limp was on the other side of that knock.I opened the door. He handed me a plate of chicken strips and biscuits from the deli and bottles of water. ‘Feed those babies and your self young lady. I have a tow truck on the way and my wife will be here shortly to take y'all home.’“

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After delivering on his promises, the man returned the next day with a mechanic to help fix her car.

“When I asked what I owed the mechanic and if I could make payments he smiled telling me the older man had paid for all of it. He said that the only payment the older man wanted was for me to never give up and keep being an amazing mom.”

At this point the older man had already left and Nelson wasn’t able to thank him personally.

“Without knowing us or our situation this kind man helped us in ways he will never know.”

"I’ll never be able to thank him. But I certainly hope one day I can do what he did for me for someone else.”

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