The little girl sat on the curb, her suitcase next to her. She had been waiting for hours, but her parents hadn’t come.

She didn’t know why they had left her. She had been a good girl, she had done everything they had asked of her. But it hadn’t been enough.

She was scared. She didn’t know where she was going to go or what she was going to do. She just knew that she was all alone.

She started to cry. She cried for her parents, she cried for herself, and she cried for the future that she didn’t know if she would have.

A woman walking by saw the little girl crying and stopped. “What’s wrong?” she asked.

The little girl told her the story, and the woman listened. When the little girl was finished, the woman said, “Don’t worry, sweet heart. I’ll help you.”

The woman took the little girl to her house and gave her a place to stay. She helped the little girl find a new school and make new friends. And she helped the little girl heal from the pain of abandonment.

The little girl never forgot the woman who helped her. She knew that she would never have been able to get through that time without her.