# A 'Paying it Forward' Story

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-paying-it-forward-story/674893>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 27, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-paying-it-forward-story/674893 "2013-11-27T04:43:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-paying-it-forward-story/674893/1 "2013-11-27T04:43:20Z")

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Two coworkers of mine, both the reporter & videographer, created a very nice story for this evening’s 5pm newscast which I think people may enjoy.

On what would have been Marra Frehiwot Olsson’s 3rd birthday, her adoptive parents sent out a Facebook message asking people to print out a message and attach it along with some ‘random act of kindness’ in memory of their daughter who was killed in an accident 6 months ago.

_The response was amazing._

[The story as it aired here…](http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/284185/158/Toddlers-memory-lives-on-through-random-acts-of-kindness-)

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**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-paying-it-forward-story/674893/2 "2013-11-27T05:28:53Z")

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I guess it’s clever marketing and is no doubt getting a lot of people to the website where they are selling sheet sets to raise money for expenses of adopting more children.