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“We knew she was feeling down. You could tell by her attitude,” said Amos, who took the video. “Normally she’s an awake person and smiling, and she wasn’t. She told us about the situation a couple weeks prior, so me and Charlie got everybody in the shop to pull the numbers together to get her taken care of.”

And that’s exactly what they did. Benbow now has her car out of the shop and was back hard at work today.

“They care. They wanted me to stay,” she said. “I had put in a two-weeks notice but they did not want me to leave. They said I was the reason they were making money, because I was making them money. It really touched me.\"

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For her manager, it was a no-brainer to help her out.

“When you see something going on, you always want to be there for your teammates,” said Brown. “We did something that was helpful for someone else. That’s just what you do.”

“Charlie is the best. He actually is such a good man,” said Benbow. “If not for him, none of this would have been done.”

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