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Alex Hershaft paid her way to the Republican conventions in 1988 for the animal rights movement. She decided she wanted to cover the Democratic one as well. On her return trip from California with her sister’s credit card she traveled, sleeping in the car and bathing in motel and hotel pools. She had left California traveling east with 25 cents cash. She came to a Stop n Shop in Kansas and upon going in saw that the clerk was denying a man in his 30’s the right to buy beer, though he was not the driver, because he did not have ID. Disliking force, she bought it for him with the credit card. Unsolicited, he handed her seven dollars. A few miles down the road was a toll booth, the only one she encountered on Rt 70 between California and Ohio. God gave her cash right before she needed it.

Another time she and her husband were in Sandusky, Ohio, without resources to get home. They were standing ankle deep in Lake Erie when suddenly there was a $20 bill floating at his ankle.