Years ago, some very kind person paid my rent directly to my landlord’s office and left $500 cash in an envelope on the windshield of my car, anonymously, 2 weeks before Christmas. I’ve never been more thankful for anything in my entire life. I quite literally fell down to my knees and cried happy tears. I’m crying…

When I was 18, my mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer. In the years prior to this she had cut off her family and separated from my father. She didn’t trust anyone so she made my barely a legal adult self her power of attorney. Six months after diagnosis she took a big turn for the worst and was mostly…

Technically not a stranger, but felt like an angel in the moment. I had sent my husband on a well-deserved 40th bday trip to see the Army/Navy game (husband is a Marine Corps vet). It was a bucket list thing for him, and even more special because his father (a Navy vet) passed away earlier this year. We had a…

I got really sick in my 20s and it was showing all signs of being cancer. I didn’t have health insurance (pre-ACA recent college graduate) so I applied to my state’s low-income health care coverage. I was working as a waitress at the time so my reported income was juuuuuust low enough for me to qualify but it was…

Your story has made me cry happy tears. Thank you for the story, thank you for helping your mom leave him, and thank you for the scholarships you fund. I think this is one of the best things I’ve ever read on Jez.

A long time ago I was in Morocco at a summer study program in a small town. Inexplicably after over a month of being there, my debit card froze and I couldn’t get any cash for weeks. My bank’s website said there were no bank branches in the country, so I couldn’t figure out how to unfreeze the account. I called the…

Another story - This was a few years ago, I was probably 26-ish. I was at a concert alone, at a small venue in LA (the Echoplex), and the room was sparsely filled because I was seeing a band that wasn’t yet popular. The guy behind me, around 50/M, kept trying to start conversations with me while the openers performed.…

I was in college and the hard drive of my fancy black MacBook gave out. I had saved a ton of money between graduation and college so I could buy it. My family isn’t poor, but I knew they wouldn’t have the discretionary budget on-hand to do anything about this, so I never told them.

I will tell you the kindest thing I’ve ever done for a stranger: I said the angelus in the middle of a coffee shop with him. This guy was old and obviously lonely and I wasn’t Catholic anymore, but he said how much he missed it, and he asked if I’d do it with him. The people in that coffee shop looked at us like we…

A few weeks ago, my husband and I were on vacation in the USVI. It was our last day and we found out that our flight was delayed so we hung around by the ferry dock to get a bite to eat rather than rush to the tiny airport to just sit there. What we didn’t realize was that we had been on the last ferry of the day, so…

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

I got in a minor fender bender (A guy ran into the back of my car in a parking lot and then tried to gaslight me into not taking his insurance and said that “my parents would probably be upset if they found out I was in an accident.... bitch please with that condescension... you. hit. me. ) Anyways, I got his info and…

I was traveling through Europe at the end of the study abroad, so I was lugging a huge suitcase from France, to Belgium, to Italy, to Greece, to England. Upon my arrival in Brussels, a man approached me and offered to carry my suitcase up the stairs. I declined, having learned in my time in Europe that men who offered…

In Norway they are fining people for fleeing to their country homes.

Also, his initials are A.I. Soong. I mean, c’mon.

How is that the same person!?

No child deserves that.

No. No they don’t. The adults in the family need to be tried and jailed and have whatever real assets they possess to be seized. I’m 100% behind that hope.

Aniston is living the dream. no whiny husband, goddess circle on fridays, Cabo with comedy writers 3x a year, and brad pitt texts sometimes to wish you well. 5 stars

Be sure to let your sister know that her son is internalizing her hate.