Viral letter reveals Florida music store owner's kindness
Published in Weird News
(UPI) A Florida music store is being lauded after a 10-year-old letter to a woman who couldn't afford rent on her son's instrument emerged online and went viral.
Jacques Ruffin, 21, said in a Reddit post that he discovered the 2009 letter from James Jones, owner of Allegro Music Centre, to his mother in a hall closet at the woman's home.
Jones wrote in the letter that he would not be charging the mother rent for the trumpet Ruffin was learning to play in school.
The letter cited financial hardships and offered encouragement to the woman.
The letter reads:
"Dear Mrs. Ruffin,
I have decided to forgive the rent on Jacques' trumpet. You do not have to pay me any more for the trumpet. It is yours to play.
However, if Jacques drops out of band and stops playing the trumpet, will you return it to me so I can give it to some other deserving student.
I have been through bad times like you. But remember: Tough times never last, Tough people do.
Maybe, you can help some other student someday when times are better.
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