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Elderly woman fallen in Shop Rite parking lot

On Friday October 18th I pulled into a parking space and noticed an elderly woman in her 80"s sitting between two cars. At first i was perplexed as to WHY she was sitting there.  Within moments, when I saw her trying to get up by grabbing onto a tire of the car closest to her head, I know she was in trouble. I ran out of my car and tried to get her up, I had her most of the way up.  If it had not been for the gentleman that was collecting the shopping carts, that ran over also, I would have had to call the police. I don't know how long she was sitting there but I think it was a while. I just wanted to thank the employee of Shoprite that dropped everything to help and helped her into the store.  I don't know the woman's name, but I can't get her out of my mind. I hope she is ok. she had so much pride and refused when I offered to call someone.  In hind sight I should have done more. Point being thank you the young man that works at Shoprite collecting carts. We all have to do the right thing....

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