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Young man are about my husband's Yes ma'am but they offered you only 3,000 paying the hospital bills I cannot escape Eleanor do you real value of this Sonnet No I only restored it himself Then let me restore its true value for you This subsonic was not sitting in Eleanor's old garage because she stopped loving it because she stopped loving it after her husband passed away The car became for her to I met Eleanor in a quiet small town standing inside a dusty garage dog held tightly in her and one trembling hand resting hood She was 84 years old a retired elementary school teacher fragile from chronic lung disease and carrying the worrying that makes a person look overnight behind her sat the sob Sonnet her husband had restored with his own hands buried under 27 years of dust boxes old tools and silence before we go any first comment and tell me what watching from because depending on grief and survival mean to you This story might personal Eleanor told me her husband because it was small strange bright and full of character life they built together He spent years that garage promising her that they would take quiet drives again when retirement finally gave them time passed the garage door stayed closed The sob became place where his hands still felt and Eleanor could not bring it clean it or even sit inside Then her health started failing doctor visits oxygen support medication and hospital care drained her savings until the medical $68,000 A scrap dealer only $3,000 saying the sub was too old too dirty and trouble to restore Eleanor almost accepted because fear makes sound like help alone But the moment yellow subsonic I knew it was not scrap Under the dust the most unique sports car sub ever made A collector piece value If someone took to bring it back properly not to sign anything I wanted to clean it inspect restore its value and make sure her husband's end in a junkyard clearing boxes off the roof wiping 27 years the hood washing the glass cleaning the interior polishing the yellow paint and carefully waking the engine after nearly three every day Eleanor stood nearby with her little dog telling stories about about the late spent in that garage and about how proud he was the sub started after his repair work again Eleanor covered her mouth and cried not because she was losing the car felt like a had answered back after about $6,000 in deep mechanical work and restoration real collector $38,000 I handed the money to Eleanor finally pay down the medical bills and breathe without that fear sitting chest every night Sometimes people see dusty car and just metal But they do widow the illness the unpaid bills in her arms or the husband's love still hiding under the dust This sob's Sonnet was never junk promise waiting 27 years to help time If Eleanor's story like share and comment happy kindness can someone's life