As a young woman, Evelyn had once chosen between filling an elderly customer’s prescription and extending him credit she might never recover.

Her own business was in trouble.

She extended the credit anyway, and spent the next month afraid she had made a reckless choice.

Years later, the customer’s daughter became the first person to help when a storm damaged Evelyn’s store.

She and her neighbors cleaned floors, moved boxes, and helped reopen the doors.

It wasn’t a miracle of compound interest.

It was a community returning a kindness.