Everyone at a birthday party mocked a poorly dressed girl and her mother until the fuss caught the attention of a wealthy man.
Madison Lando brought her daughter Trudy up all by herself. The 33-year-old woman had been married to a miner named Joe Lando until he passed away in a mysterious mining accident along with some of his colleagues.
When he passed away, Madison was mad at him for a long time. “I war:ned you to stop doing it,” she would say whenever she thought about him.
The acci:dent occured two years before, and their daughter, three at the time, had to grow up without a father.
It was not easy for them, especially after the little money her husband saved for emergencies used up.
That’s how they lived, until one day, their lives changed suprisingly.
Trudy had completed kindergarten, and a very wealthy classmate of hers invited her to attend the entire class for her birthday party.
“All dresses to be allowed must be bought at the Fontaine clothing store, and of course, there will be discounts.”
When Madison got home that day, she told her mother about the party. “Mom, everyone will be there. I have to go!” the girl said, excited.
“We need to get to the store to pick my dress.”
“Yes, yes, let’s go,” her mom said with feigned excitement.
She only had $100 tip which she had received at the restaurant where she worked during morning hours.
Madison was unhappy with what was happening, so she went down to a fabric store, picked out a similar fabric as the dress in Fontaine, and took it home to sew.
“Just you wait baby, you’ll have a dress soon,” she said.
It took her all night to sew the dress, but the end product was perfect. “Thank you mom, I love it,” Trudy said, genuinely pleased with all the work her mother put in. “I can’t wait to show it off.”
However, as she and her mother walked into the party, they paid the attention of many of the rich kids and their parents, who started to laugh at Trudy’s attire.
“You should be more careful little girl,” he said in a voice that sounded familiar to her — then she heard her mom speak behind her.
“Joe?” she said.
“Is it really you?” Madison asked as she moved closer.
“Maddy?”
The three people became similar from one another as they hugged tightly.
This was her husband, whom she believed had di:ed five years before. “Trudy, this is your father!”
“Finally, I found you!” he said.
“What happened? Where have you been?” his wife said in between hugs.
“Let’s head inside, I’m here to offer gifts to the daughter of a business associate,” he said.
“We can catch up then.”
“We can’t go back in there Joe, not after what happened,” Madison said.
“Tell me,” he said.
After a range of incidents, Joe went with his family to the party hall, but this time, as the moms laughed at them again, Joe rose to their defense.
“Our daughter may not have such expensive outfits as your children, but she has been taught how to be a good person. It is people with poor souls like you who can hardly be helped.”
Nobody could think of an answer.
After mining accident, Joe had been wearing his friend’s jacket.
When he woke up, he did not remember anything and had been identified by documents that belonged to his friend, who had no family or close friends, so no one came to visit him at the hospital.
His memory did not return immediately, and by the time it did, Madison and Trudy had already moved. “We had to,” she said. “We lost the house to the bank.”
Joe began to find them, and while he did, he opened his own mining business, worked hard, and became a millionaire.
He moved Trudy and her mother to his luxury condo, where he hoped to live with them happily and get to know his daughter more.
