It had finally happened, just as I’d secretly feared. I could not get home after all. See me then, a lone woman, sat in the middle of a busy airport, her suitcase open and spilled everywhere, sobbing bitterly into a stuffed animal as hundreds step around her, heads down, wasted on their own needs. Alone in a crowd. And then—I looked up. A woman in a mask stood over me, her forehead drawn with concern.

 “Is there some way I can help you?” she asked.

In this episode of When We Could Touch, a single stranger shows me kindness in the midst of the most horrifying day of 2020 for ya girl.

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