When I heard that dozens, then hundreds, of packages were being dropped off at a home in Northern Virginia, I knew who sent them: You.
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“An ENTIRE AMAZON TRUCK just arrived for the Little Yellow Free Pantry,” Susan Thompson-Gaines wrote me at one point.
After that delivery driver left, another pulled up, then another, until at one point, more than 350 packages filled her house. In those boxes were enough jars and cans and other containers of food to keep the neighborhood pantry outside her home stocked for a long while. Also in them: notes that made it clear those packages were in honor of a mysterious donor I had told you about in a column.