This Alabama 7-year-old started a lemonade stand to pay for her mother’s tombstone
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An Alabama community has been inspired by the child's selflessness.
  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    121·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      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.”