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Ellen DeGeneres pays it back with $10K

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been on air since 2003. Photo: NBCstations.com

Ellen DeGeneres is a 13-time Emmy award winning actress and popular talk-show host who has been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for 3 years. Last week, she made news with a generous act which underlined the importance of basic human kindness.

In her show, DeGeneres repaid a waitress who had picked up the lunch bill of two National Guard soldiers.

The waitress, 22-year-old single mother Sarah Hoidahl, was working at a restaurant in New Hampshire, when the two women troops sat in her section for a meal, Fox News reported. The waitress heard the soldiers discussing the government shutdown and mention they were not getting paid.

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After they had finished their lunch, instead of delivering the soldiers a cheque, the waitress sent them a note reading “Thanks to the government shutdown the people like you that protect this country are not getting paid. However I still am. Lunch is on me! Thank you for serving ladies! Have a good day!”

The bill cost her $27.75.

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Waitress Sarah Hoidahl, and the note she left to her two National Guard customers

Learning about this act of kindness when the soldiers posted a picture of the note on the National Guard Facebook page, Ellen DeGeneres asked the waitress to her show.

Not only did DeGeneres remunerate her $27 in cash. She also handed the astounded waitress a cheque for $10,000, in gratitude for her exemplary act of caring.

Watch Ellen DeGeneres sharing her thoughts about the practice of Transcendental Meditation: Video from the David Lynch Foundation

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