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Matthew Jackson was 28 years old and worked as a personal trainer in Oceanside, California. On November 10, 2015, he was at a Trader Joe's when he saw 29-year-old Jamie-Lynne Knighten holding her crying baby Wyatt, with her card declined in front of a long line of people. Without knowing her, he approached and said, “I’ll pay for it.” He covered the more than $200 worth of groceries, and when she wanted to thank him, he asked for only one thing: that she promise to do the same for someone else someday. Jamie went home determined to keep that promise. But when she called the gym a week later to find him and thank him, she learned that Matthew had died in a car accident the day after that act of kindness, when the vehicle he was riding in went off the road in Oceanside. His mother, LeeAnn Krymow, described him as someone who always thought of others. Jamie did not let the pain be the end of it: she created Matthew's Legacy, an initiative that has already inspired thousands of people around the world to pay kindness forward, just as he asked her to do that day in the supermarket line. ❤️🌹