This story is about the unexpected power of words, and how kindness, when spoken or shown, can change lives in ways we never imagine. It all started with my daughter, Sara, who had a job as a nanny for a young girl named Megan. Megan was just a toddler and could barely form a proper sentence, so most of her talking was jumbled and hard to understand.
One afternoon, Megan’s mother, Julia, returned home. She heard a few sentences come out of her daughter’s mouth that sounded clear enough to cause alarm. The things Megan said drove her mother to an immediate, painful decision: she called Sara and ended her employment right away.
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