On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have1 the course earlier than she did. Her 2 came because she was carrying a3 across the finish line.
As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her4 when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She5 to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with6 She couldn't. Bailey then7 to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get8 attention.
Once there, Lenoue was 9 and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme10 to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey's help.
As for Bailey, she is more11 about why her act is considered a big12 . "She was just crying. I couldn't 13 her," Bailey told the reporter. "I feel like I was just doing the right thing."
Although the two young women were strangers before the14 they've since become friends. Neither won the race, but the15 of human kindness won the day.
