What's the kindest thing you've ever experienced?

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an act of kindness to you or one you've witnessed or heard about?

I have loved this thread, gutted I've got to the end!
Imagine everyone was as kind as thoughtful as the people talked about on this thread, the world would be a much nicer place

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I've been in tears reading these posts, particularly yours ParkheadParadise RIP your daughter.

I try to do as many random acts of kindness as possible in my life, the older I get, but can't think of many that have happened to me, strangely. I've had two atrocious miscarriages and nobody went out of their way for me, except my lovely husband. Maybe I give off nasty vibes. Anyhow, one I do still vividly remember was when I was doing my mock A levels, in 1974. It is absolutely minor in the whole scheme of things. I'd completely dried up on my English paper (supposedly my best subject) and despite having worked hard for it, spent 3 hours staring at the page, unable to write anything sensible, particularly about Edmund Spencer's bloody Faerie Queene. I was going home alone on the afternoon train afterwards, sobbing my heart out, snotty nosed, having decided my entire future was ruined as I wouldn't get into university because of this failure. An older chap sitting opposite me handed me some tissues and told me: "It can't be as bad as all that!" I couldn't tell him why I was crying, but his kindness remains with me still.
The really annoying thing is that apart from some of my family, I can't remember anyone else being gratuitously kind to me. I hope it's just my incipient dementia causing memory loss that accounts for it. Although I have lovely friends, so maybe I'm taking their kindness for granted?