The Business 9 Women Kept A Secret For Three Decades - UPDATE!
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What a wonderful group of ladies.
Somewhere in West Tennessee, not far from Graceland, nine women -- or "The 9 Nanas," as they prefer to be called -- gather in the darkness of night. At 4am they begin their daily routine -- a ritual that no one, not even their husbands, knew about for 30 years. They have one mission and one mission only: to create happiness. And it all begins with baked goods. ...
“One of the sisters suggested that we should all start doing our own laundry and put the money we saved to good use. I admit, I protested at first. There’s just something about laundering that I don’t like. But I was outnumbered! So among the nine of us, we’d put aside about $400 a month and our husbands never noticed a thing. Their shirts looked just fine.” ...
And then the women started listening. They’d eavesdrop -- all with good intentions, of course -- at the local beauty shop or when they were picking up groceries. And when they heard about a widow or a single mom who needed a little help, they’d step in and anonymously pay a utility bill or buy some new clothes for the children. ...
“We gave new meaning to the term drive-by,” Mary Ellen said with delight. “We’d drive through low-income neighborhoods and look for homes that had fans in the window. That told us that the people who lived there didn’t have air-conditioning. Or we’d see that there were no lights on at night, which meant there was a good chance their utilities had been turned off. Then we’d return before the sun came up, like cat burglars, and drop off a little care package.”
UPDATE: Here's the website where you can order The Nine Nanas' baked goods: Happiness Happens Here http://happiness-happens.com/index.html
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just to read it! 
I so often finding myself wishing there was a hell, once in a while, heaven. This is one of those once in a whiles. 
Glad I'm not the only one who wishes such things.
Julie
What an amazing group of incredibly selfless women. I aspire to be like them. My deep affection to the 9 Nanas and my props to MaMaw Ruth for the obvious impact she had on the lives of so many.
i had to chime in. this sort of work goes on in our communites unnoticed detected or heard of . all of these people who do this dont toot their own horn. they just do it and thank goodness for them
in the corporate sector, you'll find the Koch brothers and Bain Capital doing a whole 'nother kind of deed!
- [center]"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate
them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I
alone am morally responsible for everything I do." ~Robert A. Heinlein[/center]
real caring for human kind. Not limited to Christian love, but love given freely as a fellow human being. 
