How do you turn down what seems like free money, when you’re desperate? You don’t. Let me keep my baby brother in school and Mom’s hospice care paid for. It let me pay the bills without going into debt. It too contained a single word: “belong.”Ī third check, the next month. The next month, I received another check, again from VRI Incorporated. If you receive a mysterious check, for enough money to erase all your worries, would you cash it? No mention of repayment, interest, nothing…except a single word, on the notes line: “You.” Just those three letters. No hint of identity or reason for the check or anything.
There was no name on the check, just “VRI Inc.,” and a post office box address for somewhere in the city. Enough to pay the bills and leave me some left over to live on until I found a job. Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an envelope in the mail.
There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle.
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