81-Year-Old Doesn’t Sleep for Days Sewing Blanket for Blind Man Who Is a Copy of Her Late Son — Story of the Day

An old lady doesn’t sleep for days, sewing a blanket for a blind man she sees at a crosswalk one day. Things take an unexpected turn when she approaches him to hand over the blanket and discovers he’s a carbon copy of her late son!

Mrs. Hill’s life had never been easy. Her husband Carson died of cancer a few years after their marriage, and her son Liam died in a car accident 25 years ago, leaving her all alone.

After Liam’s funeral, nobody saw Mrs. Hill in Austin, Texas, and she seemed to have vanished mysteriously. The woman had left the city and moved to the countryside, hoping to avoid the melancholy feelings that the city that had taken away her son and husband had instilled in her.

Unfortunately, the countryside didn’t present Mrs. Hill with a better life. It was more peaceful than the city, but all she had was a small farm that yielded a bare minimum and hardly kept her fed. As winter approached, the yield reduced even more drastically, and Mrs. Hill struggled to make ends meet.

One day, she was returning home after a meeting with a local vendor when she noticed a homeless man shivering in the cold, begging for alms. “Please assist me in getting home. I’m blind and have lost my memory,” read the placard next to him.

Mrs. Hill noticed several people passed by him, but nobody bothered to help him. She checked her wallet for money and discovered all she had were a few cents. That certainly wouldn’t do the man any good, the old lady reasoned, looking at his dire state and torn clothes that barely covered his skin, lest protect him from the cold.

So that night, at home, she decided to sew him a blanket that would keep him warm in the wintry weather. If it had been her older self, the job would’ve been done in a few days, but at 81 years of age, her eyes had started betraying her.

So the woman didn’t sleep for nearly a week, sewing the blanket little by little after returning from the farm so she could give it to the man before the weather deteriorated and snow engulfed the entire area.

However, when she returned to the street where she’d first seen him with the blanket and some fruits, he was nowhere to be found. She asked the shops in the area about him and searched the nearby alleys, but it was all for naught.

The man didn’t show up for several days, and Mrs. Hill was losing hope that she’d see him again. But one evening, while walking through...