generosity
Japanese restaurant lets generous customers pay for extra meals, needy customers eat for free
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Scott Wilson
Dec 24, 2015 - Tweet
93-year-old Japanese woman gifts ambulance worth 2.7 million yen to local fire station
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Meg Murphy
Mar 29, 2015
When you’re ill or your life is in danger, it’s natural to feel gratitude towards those who aided your recovery or saved your life. But what do you do to show your gratitude?
One elderly woman from Nara Prefecture, Japan, felt so grateful to the ambulances who often help her, that she decided to donate a brand new ambulance to her local fire station. And it wasn’t just any ambulance – this was a top-of-the-line model worth 2.7 million yen (over US$22,000)!
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