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[quote=Anonymous]So, my mom is one of those people with a big support group. Here are the things that have contibuted to it.

1) She's lived in the same area for decades.

2) She became an expert on child development through her career and became a sounding board for many families about things with their children, now grown. So while she is not really an extrovert, she has had emotuonally deep interactions with many people over the years.

3) She has a couple of friends who are coordinators. One has organized meal trains, and one has become an errand runner, driver to medical appointments, etc.

4) My mom had to learn to ask for help.

She is a longtime church member, and that probsbly is also a factor, but I don't think it's a major factor, other than it happened to be the way she met the coordinator friends.

She lives in the Midwest, but I live in the DMV. Our neighborhood (loosely speaking, not just immediate neighbors) is fairly tight, and I've been both a participant and a recipient of meal trains for new babies or families dealing with surgeries or hospitalizations. A lot of times,  we didn't really know each other, but there is a mechanism to request the meal train,  and people do. [/quote]

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