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Believe Project: $100 for a friend whose husband left her in the lurch financially

Today's winner of a $100 bill through the Believe Project is Mark Kurland of Carol Stream.

Here is an excerpt of his suggestion:

"I would like the $100 gift for a friend who is going through a nasty divorce. Her husband was having an affair with a younger woman and left her and their college-age daughter behind. All the financial decisions and related loans were in his name, and he refuses to stand up and support them. She is struggling financially, now on food stamps and going to a food pantry. Her daughter cannot attend college now. The house will be in foreclosure soon and she is struggling to make ends meet and find a new place to live.

I would like to give her this money to be used in any manner she sees fit to help make ends meet, even in the short term."

• The Believe Project mails a $100 bill each day to someone with a good idea for how to use it to do a good deed for someone else.

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