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Instead, her tweet has more than 1,500 retweets, thousands of likes and has reached people as far away as Germany.

“It’s just gone completely beyond what we expected,” Gandarilla said. “I even got a message from a local counselor who said his act of kindness would be to offer services to my son if he continued to be anxious.”

Ruben said seeing the kindness in people is already helping him move forward.

“It’s been great knowing everybody can help,” he said. “The most important thing is for people to be kind all day, every day, all night, every night.”

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