Greater than $365,000 has been raised for a 90-year-old disabled Air Pressure veteran dwelling in New Hampshire after a TikTok consumer filmed him pawning jewellery so he might afford lease for him and his spouse with dementia to keep away from eviction.
TikToker Jenelle Marie got here throughout the person, recognized as Donald, at U.S. Gold and Pawn in Manchester, the place he instructed her about his monetary state of affairs.
Donald defined that he was struggling to maintain up together with his payments after his landlord elevated the lease and that his spouse had not too long ago been recognized with dementia. He stated he feared being displaced and the chance that his spouse could be pressured to go to a house.
Marie began a GoFundMe web page to assist ease Donald’s monetary stress. The fundraiser has raised greater than $365,000 as of Monday morning.
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Donald stated he was struggling to maintain up together with his payments after his landlord elevated the lease. (GoFundMe)
She posted a video to TikTok shortly after the fundraiser began, handing Donald an envelope with the $1,200 that had been raised at the moment.
Donald was initially reluctant to just accept the cash, however Marie insisted.
He was capable of hold the jewellery he was pawning due to the $1,200 and managed to repay his debt to his landlord.
“You’re an angel in disguise, you really are,” he instructed Marie. “I don’t know what to say, I really don’t know what to say.”
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“This is the best birthday present anyone has ever had,” Donald stated. He turns 91 on August 25.
Marie wrote on the GoFundMe web page that it was “a truly beautiful and emotional moment” and “something that I will never forget” when she instructed him the fundraiser raised $164,000 at that time.
“He graciously said he could never ever thank us and the people who donated,” she wrote. “He said he didn’t deserve it. He was ‘just an ordinary man’, but we explained to him that he’s so much more than that!”
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She stated the fundraiser would stay open till she and Donald can meet with an lawyer and work out learn how to put the cash in a protected account for Donald to entry.
Marie wrote that “we are just so blown away at all the kindness that exist out there that we very seldom hear about. You ALL are angels in disguise and THIS type of love is what this world needs.”
