st oprah
i've cried several times while reading this story. all hoopla and marketing and publicity aside, this is about bringing joy to individuals, in need or not. regardless of the goodwill they may engender, the positive or negative consequences, the millions for those involved, the joy, beauty and reach of gestures of generosity, altruism and philanthropy are invaluable treasures, ultimately very human gifts to the very human spirit/mind/soul and move me no end.talk show host oprah winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season monday by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.
ms winfrey said that they were calling this their wildest dream season, because this year on the oprah show, no dream is too wild, no surprise too impossible to pull off.
making sure the audience was kept in suspense, ms winfrey opened the show by calling eleven audience members onto the stage and gave each of them a pontiac g6. she then had gift boxes distributed to the rest of the audience and said one of the boxes contained keys to a twelfth car. but when the audience members opened the boxes, each had a set of keys.
ms winfrey yelled «everybody gets a car! everybody gets a car! everybody gets a car!» as she jumped up and down on the stage. meanwhile the audience members screamed, cried and hugged each other. they then followed winfrey out to the parking lot of her harpo studios to see their pontiacs, all decorated with giant red bows. one woman stepped up onto the frame of a driver's side door, put her head on the roof and hugged the vehicle.
winfrey said the audience members were chosen because their friends or family had written to the show about their need for a new car. one woman's young son said she drove a car that «looks like she got into a gunfight»; another couple had almost 400,000 miles on their two vehicles.
in other segments on the show, winfrey surprised a twenty-year-old girl who had spent years in foster care and homeless shelters with a four-year college scholarship, a makeover and $10,000 in clothes. a family with eight foster children who were going to be evicted from their rented home were given $130,000 to buy and repair the house.
and what did the deity do today?
the oprah winfrey show, which debuted in 1986, is syndicated to 212 domestic markets and 109 countries. source: the associated press via find law.
