Man in crisis calls gay bookstore, and manager and patrons answer
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While working at the bookstore one night, he said he received a call from a man who said he might be gay and was “considering self-harm.”
“We were not a crisis center! But as long as we’re talking, he’s safe, right?” @TweetChizone continued in a tweet that has received more than 30,000 likes as of Wednesday afternoon.
The man said he kept the caller on the phone by answering his questions, even though there were several customers in his store. @TweetChizone said that a few minutes later, “this angel of a woman puts her hand on my shoulder and asks for the phone. 'My turn,' she says.”
"And SHE, this 50-something lesbian talks to this stranger on the phone. And a LINE FORMS BEHIND HER. Every customer in that store knows that call, knows that feeling, and every person takes a turn talking to that man,” he continued. “That story comforts me so much to this day.”
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A re-affirmation that humanity and kindness actually do exist in our increasingly polarized country.
THANK YOU for sharing this post.
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These people took time to help a stranger on the phone who was under distress. I'm sure that they left him feeling much better than when he made the call. It does take a village...
While I never called the bookstore to seek help because I had reached the end of hope, I did, as a confused and frightened gay boy of 14, find my community when I found the Amazon Bookstore (the FIRST and the BEST) while on a trip to Minneapolis one summer. It was what I needed right then and there, just like the story. Thank you for sharing this article!
Just everything you want humanity to be in a crisis, and in this dark time it makes me want to cry.
