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YOUR HEART FOLLOWS YOUR DOLLARS
Connie was a young woman who rejected people and became a lonely individual. Reading, working, and taking care of her apartment became the focal interests in her life. Connie’s whole life was changed when she began to send ten dollars a month to Helga — an adopted child overseas. From a growing interest in Helga, Connie learned a fair amount of German, made a trip to Hamburg to see Helga. Becoming something of an authority on Germany, the travel company for which Connie worked gave her a promotion. With the increased money, she adopted another child, a little French boy. Finally, she adopted three additional children, two in Italy and one in Greece. Connie learned how to put the value of personality above things. She saw the lives of these five children increase as her own personality developed. She had broken the unimaginative barrier which so long had caused her to say, “Go away.” The Reader’s Digest, Jan, 1959,…