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Jul 14, 2007

"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook." --Les Giblin

$10,000 Tip At Pizza Hut

It was just a typical day on the job at Pizza Hut for 20-year-old Jessica Osborne when out of the blue, the waitress received a gift that would change her life: a $10,000 tip. Always ready with a smile for her customers, Jessica had been forced to withdraw from college because of a lack of financial aid. She told Becky, one of her regular customers about the textbooks she had bought and kept in the trunk of her car and her dreams to become a photographer. Jessica had no idea that Becky’s family had recently suffered a tremendous loss. Her husband and eldest daughter had been killed in a car accident. When Becky heard about Osborne's broken dreams, she generously decided to use money from her settlement to make them come true.