When a son sent out a digital prayer, a stranger answered to rescue his mom

The Globe and Mail | Dave McGinn


There are only two posts on Michael Andrade’s blog on the social-media site Tumblr. But those two say it all.

The first one was written last October. When the 22-year-old accounting student at York University turned on his computer at home in Brampton, Ont. (northwest of Toronto), all other options had failed him.

“Considering what I am asking for, and where I am posting this,” he wrote, “I do realize this may be a long shot, but I must try everything I can.”

At the top of the lengthy post was a grainy photograph of his mother holding him on her lap when he was just a little boy.

“That woman in the picture above has loved me like no other mother can. She’s the strongest, most unselfish person I know, and has made so many sacrifices so that her four children can live a great, great life. I just can’t begin to describe what she has done for her family, and she will never take any credit or reward for it. This is why I am resorting to every possible way I can, including Tumblr, to get my message across.”

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