Article December 23, 2002 Issue

A stranger's gift

By Lorraine Smith Smucker

Snow was in the forecast , but it was only a 50-mile drive into Cleveland, so I went ahead with my plans to get some last-minute gifts. After several hours of successful shopping, I got back into my car and started for home.

By then, it was snowing so hard I could barely see the road in front of me. Then suddenly, one of my rear tires began to go flat. I managed to pull over to the side of the road safely, but I didn't know what to do next.

I had changed a tire myself, but that was years before when you could raise the car by putting the jack under the bumper. I had no idea how to change a tire on my new car with its funny little jack. So I just sat there for a few minutes ... and prayed.

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