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Guardian Angels Appeared Out of Nowhere

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Photo By Fotolia/Giuseppe Porzani
Kind strangers at a gas station banded together to help a man who was feeling ill.

I once met guardian angels from Heaven.

In December of 2009, I drove home to Ohio for the Christmas holiday. Having
come from a large family of eight children, six made it home for the holidays.
Unfortunately, one of them apparently carried a nasty flu bug into Mom’s humble
home.

On the morning of Wednesday, December 30th, I said goodbye
to Mom and lugged my overnight bag to the car. I departed for the 12-hour
drive back to South Carolina
in a light snow fall — and feeling just fine.

As I crossed the Ohio River, I started to feel sick, and
things rapidly deteriorated on the West
Virginia turnpike. There, while decelerating for a
toll booth, I threw up on myself and momentarily blacked
out. Consequently, I side-swiped the car on my left before regaining
consciousness and recovering control of the vehicle. 

We both pulled over to the shoulder, where we traded the
obligatory insurance information. Damage was minor to the two cars, so we
decided to continue on our way.

I paid the toll and continued south, but only felt worse as
I continued to drive. So I decided to take the next exit, stop at the
first gas station or convenience store I saw, and buy something to drink. The
last thing I remember was parking my car, exiting and walking toward the front
door.

The next thing I knew, I was sitting at a booth in the
convenience store’s restaurant. Standing before me was an elderly woman, a
man in his 30s, and three members of the local emergency medical
team. Evidently, the woman and her son had found my body on the pavement
and called 911.

While I sat drinking orange juice somebody had given me, I
tried to gather my wits about me. Meanwhile, my body ached from head to
toe, and my stomach was doing somersaults.

Together, we came up with a plan. The woman drove me to the
Ramada Inn across the road, while her son followed us in my car
there. Under their guidance, I got a room for the night, and the mother
and son escorted me to that room. Before they departed, they briefed the staff
at the front desk.

After a long night, I awoke the next morning feeling great.

To this day, I have no idea who the mother and son were. I
have no idea where they live. All I remember was that their car had Kentucky
plates. I’ve never heard from these kind strangers since the event, and probably never
will. 

They truly were guardian angels from Heaven.

John M. Scanlan
Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina

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more tales of generosity by CAPPER’s readers in 
Stories of Helping Others.