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[quote=Anonymous]No, not so much that I ever really saw. We always donated clothes and toys and were taught to help those less fortunate than us whenever we could. My mother is a big "humanitarian" but it was never a friends/family/neighbors/community thing. They spent a lot of money to help the down-and-out babysitter they hired as our nanny. My mom went on major Doctors Without Borders style-trips (both parents in medicine, but only she was into this stuff), including to really dangerous places, for weeks at a time. Now she donates a lot of money to a handful of causes she really cares about.

But I definitely never saw them doing any meal train or community-type volunteering besides showing up when medical help was needed nearby and they were called (including on airplanes). I'm trying to remember if they ever went to help friends, considering there were a couple different points when one parent or the other became deathly ill, long hospital stints, and their friends majorly stepped in to help, many flying in and staying with us. I don't know if they ever did that for others, though. Maybe they did and I just don't recall.[/quote]

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