The Heartwarming Reason Why One Woman Leaves Anonymous Notes All Over Her City

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The Heartwarming Reason Why One Woman Leaves Anonymous Notes All Over Her City

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Every day people across America leave things behind, from their wallets and phones to their car keys, but one woman from San Diego leaves a little bit of hope everywhere she goes.

Her anonymous cards have become famous across the city. They each come in a plain brown envelope, stuck somewhere with a colorful piece of tape. The outside always says the same thing:

"Hello! If you find this card it belongs to you. Go ahead and open it."

Inside, the "Note Fairy" - as she's become known around town - writes a unique message of hope and faith, meant to comfort whoever finds and reads the letter. And people who have discovered her letters say it really does help.

Crystal Turk found one of the envelopes taped to a tree outside Walmart. The kind and sweet message inside came at just the right time. Turk's husband is in jail, and she's been raising their children on her own.

"We've hit a few bumps in the road on his journey home, and just this week it hit me pretty hard," she told NBC news. "Getting the note of encouragement saying 'never give up hope' is just what I needed."

Another woman found a card at Starbucks after her husband had an affair, and says the message of hope was a life saver during a time when she "was going through things that I didn't have answers for."

Find out who's leaving these notes and why on the next page!

The mysterious "Note Fairy" has finally been unmasked, and it turns out she has a good reason to spread cheer across her city.

Shannon Wasser started leaving notes, which she calls Hope Drops, about a year and a half ago. She writes them in her spare time, usually in her car, and leaves them wherever feels right at the time.

She guesses that by now she's dropped off more than 1,000 messages of good cheer, and simply hopes "what I'm doing is making someone else's day better."

Not long ago, Wasser was the one who needed encouragement. Since age 13 she battled addictions to drugs and alcohol, finding her way in and out of juvenile prison and group homes.

Now, she's a happily married mother-of-three, and wants to remind everyone else that better days will come. She doesn't want any credit, just for others to follow her example and make the world a nicer place.

"I just want people to know they're seen," she says, "I'm not hoping to get anything out of it. Mostly, I just hope that other people would do it."

You can read more about Wasser and her cards on her Facebook page, Hope Sent.

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[H/T: NBC]

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