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An unlikely pair, 76-year-old Fannie Garner and 17-year-old Johnson Thompson, brought together by what they call divine intervention. Well, nothing but God, it had to be because I don't remember it. And I got there and I got there safe. On June 30th, Thompson couldn't sleep and went to work late in his family's workshop on South Dixon Street. He'd been having trouble sleeping after he flipped his lawnmower and hurt himself a week earlier. He was working when he saw a car slowly pull over across the street just before 5 a.m. She parked across the street in a parking lot. She got out of her car and she was stumbling around. So I went out to the end of our parking lot to check on her and see if she was okay. And that's when she explained to me that she had a terrible headache and was wanting to know where the nearest emergency room was. Garner drove from Cherokee to Tuscumbia. Around 20 miles, though, she doesn't remember much. Johnson got her a chair and called 911, waiting with her until an ambulance came. She learned at the hospital she had a brain bleed. Angel. Hero. GARNER'S FAMILY TRACKED THOMPSON DOWN TO THANK HIM THE FOLLOWING DAY. I JUST FELT LIKE, YOU KNOW, RELIEVED AND SO THANKFUL FOR HUMANITY THAT SOMEONE WOULD, YOU KNOW, PAY ATTENTION. AND TUESDAY, THOMPSON AND GARNER WERE REUNITED. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND WE HAVE A LITTLE LOVE. I'LL SEND FOR YOU. GARNER'S FAMILY SAYS THAT SEEING THIS KINDNESS OUT OF A COMPLETE STRANGER HAS RENEWED THEIR HOPE FOR THE COMMUNITY. THIS ONE ACT, FORMING A LIFELONG BOND BETWEEN THE TWO FAMILIES. I WILL NEVER, EVER FORGIVE HIM. We already had plans for his graduation, that's next year.