She Was Fired for a Kind Act — Years Later, Life Gave Her the Respect She Deserved
For nearly two decades, my mother, Cathy, was the heart of Beller’s Bakery — the kind of person whose warmth made people’s mornings brighter than any pastry could. Customers would come in just to see her smile or hear her kind words. One stormy evening, as she locked up, she spotted a homeless veteran sitting…