A Virginia teenager confirmed her estranged father the that means of fine “cents” and maturity.
Avery Sanford hadn’t seen her dad in years when he dropped off his ultimate little one help cost final month — dumping 80,000 pennies on his ex-wife’s garden, based on Information 6 Richmond.
“I simply turned 18. After I was in the course of class, my dad got here by. He had rented a trailer,” Sanford instructed the outlet.
Her penny-hoarding dad “pulled up in entrance of the home and turned the trailer on so it dumped out all of the pennies on the grass,” she recalled.
“And my mother got here out and was like, ‘What are you dumping in my yard?’ She didn’t know who it was till he shouted, ‘It’s your ultimate little one help cost.”
As a substitute of getting mad, the highschool senior determined to put aside the copper supply for charity, based on the report.
The household picked up each penny and plans to donate all $800 to Protected Harbor, a home abuse heart.
“It’s not simply my mother he’s making an attempt to embarrass, it’s additionally me and my sister and it’s upsetting that he didn’t contemplate that earlier than he did that,” the teenager instructed the station.
“Turning round and donating that cash to mothers and kids in want, I really feel like that actually turns this case right into a constructive. You possibly can be taught from it.”
Her father instructed the station he acted out of 18 years of pent-up frustration and “the very last thing he wished to do” was push his daughter additional away.
