From the HUFF POST:
You don’t have to be a billionaire — nor a jolly, white-bearded figure out of folklore — to make the holiday season remarkably sweeter for a stranger. Or a lot of strangers. Over the past few years, ordinary people across the country have been taking up the calling of Larry Stewart, the original Secret Santa.
For more than 25 years, Stewart marked the holidays by handing out cash anonymously to random people in need, $100 and sometimes even $1,000 at a time.
By the time he passed away in 2007, Stewart, whose life path had taken him from broke and hungry to millionaire, had given away in excess of $1.3 million, one individual at at time. And thanks to the publicity he got when he allowed his identity to be made public a few months before his death, his legacy continues. A cadre of people have taken up the mantle, anonymously performing random acts of kindness and giving, loosely organized as the Society of Secret Santas…
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