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This woman wakes up every morning to wave at a school bus. (Original Post) demmiblue Sep 2020 OP
Sweet. Arkansas Granny Sep 2020 #1
Story: sl8 Sep 2020 #2
I just love stuff like this.❤️❤️❤️❤️ Olafjoy Sep 2020 #3
Image screamed Iowa countryside-I was right StClone Sep 2020 #4
45 years later, I remember the older gentleman who sat by his window every morning and afternoon renate Sep 2020 #5
Oh, the things we have lost. gristy Sep 2020 #6
So sweet. Niagara Sep 2020 #7
100% high quality content n/t hibbing Sep 2020 #8
Cheap thrills!... Illumination Sep 2020 #9
Love it and all of the kids on the bus yelled Happy Birthday! nt iluvtennis Sep 2020 #10

sl8

(13,719 posts)
2. Story:
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 02:41 PM
Sep 2020
https://www.kcci.com/article/93-year-old-woman-who-waves-at-school-bus-every-day-gets-special-birthday-surprise/31506004#

93-year-old woman who waves at school bus every day gets special birthday surprise

KCCI
Updated: 10:01 PM CDT Mar 13, 2020
Sarah Muller

HARTLEY, Iowa —
Bonnie Linder, of Hartley, steps out on her front porch every weekday morning to wave at the kids in the school bus that passes by.

On Sunday, Linder will be 93 years old. On Friday morning, she went out to give her daily wave when the kids on the school bus yelled back, "Happy birthday!"

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StClone

(11,683 posts)
4. Image screamed Iowa countryside-I was right
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 03:09 PM
Sep 2020

Hartley in NW Iowa! Bet this was last winter. In Iowa the farms have eaten up everything except the yards and basically everything is an island among seas of corn and soybeans with a smattering of other minor crops. Agricultural desert!

renate

(13,776 posts)
5. 45 years later, I remember the older gentleman who sat by his window every morning and afternoon
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 03:41 PM
Sep 2020

To wave at the kids going to and from the elementary school a block away. What a sweetheart, and what a lovely memory to leave us with.

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