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During an interview at a local food bank, the recruiter recognized the charm as one distributed in family care packages and, after hearing my story, hired me immediately. Weeks later, I reunited with the boy, his mother, and his baby sister at a food distribution event, where she was happily chewing on an identical blue star. 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