Old Lady Is Shivering in the Biting Cold, Everyone Ignores Her except a Brave Little Boy — Story of the Day

Everyone who knew Martha ignored her because of what they’d been told about her, but her lonely fate changed one day when a little boy approached her.

Martha was unusual. She knew it, and so did everyone who lived in the quaint little town she moved to after losing her life savings to a con artist.

When she first arrived in town, Martha avoided any attempt to socialize with the townspeople, and eventually, they took the cue and stopped trying to be friendly with her.

“She’s such a snob,” they would whisper behind her back while she pretended not to hear.

Martha was well aware of how her neighbors saw her, but she could not be bothered to even care. If she had her way, the woman would rather be invisible so nobody would have to bother her ever again.

It was not that Martha hated people; on the contrary, she had always been a social butterfly until tragedy befell her home, claiming her family in the process.

Martha, at 30, lost her two sons and husband in a house fire explosion that left very little of them to bury, and what’s worse, she was the prime suspect.

It took a lot for her to be able to prove her innocence, and by the time she did, all of her friends and extended family already believed she was responsible.

After she was absolved of all criminal allegations in a court of law, Martha decided she would uproot herself and find a new place to start over even though she had only meager savings left after settling with her lawyer.

That was how she made her way to the small town she now lived in. It was beautiful and quiet, two things Martha liked, so she decided to remain.

At first, she rented an Airbnb where she spent several weeks, then she moved to an apartment owned by a nosy woman named Deborah.

Deborah prided herself on being the one-stop shop for fresh...