Kind gesture in Alabama doctor’s office goes viral

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October 25, 2018

A Facebook post made Tuesday by an Alabama woman has gone viral, with approximately one million interactions as of Thursday at noon.

Natasha Crittenden Wilson of Florence said she was in the waiting room at her doctor’s office when a woman walked in with her sleeping baby.

The woman was handed paperwork to fill out and, as she sat in the office trying to figure out how to fill it out while holding her baby.

Wilson wrote, “[T]his man, from across the room, asks her if she would like for him to hold her baby while she did her paperwork!! She smiled and said that would be wonderful!! This man went over there and rocked and loved on that baby like he was his!!”

Wilson continued, “My heart Melted!!! Racism is still VERY real in our society today BUT THIS MAN GAVE ME HOPE & a sweet memory I’ll never forget!!”

Sean Ross is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn

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