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 Angel Tree Volunteer John Miller was calling children's caregivers for gift suggestions when he reached the mother of Tiffany, a 14-year-old. He noted from the application that her incarcerated father had asked for headphones, tennis shoes, and books for Tiffany. John asked Tiffany's mother what kind of books the girl would like.
"Sir, my daughter is blind," said the mother. "She has been blind since birth."
But John was undaunted.
"How about books in Braille?" he asked. "Does she read Braille?"
"Yes, but books in Braille are expensive and hard to find," said the mom. "Do you think it would be possible?"
"Madam," assured the former marine, "nothing is impossible."
On the gift tag for Angel 260A, John wrote, "Books in Braille." Then he hung it along with the other tags on the Angel Tree at Community Baptist Church in Manhattan Beach, California.
Following church services the next Sunday, sisters Amanda and Evelyn Kenney went up to the Angel Tree to choose their tree tags. Their father, Sean, steered eight-year-old Evelyn to the tags for twin girls her own age, who asked for Barbie dolls and clothing. Those would be easy items to find, he reasoned. Instead, Evelyn focused her attention on Tag 260A and asked her father what "Braille" meant.
"It means she is probably blind," said Sean, wondering where one would start looking for a book in Braille. Again he tried to interest Evelyn in the tags for the twins, but Evelyn removed Tiffany's tag and insisted, "This is the one."
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