An 11-year-old autistic boy was looking for something to place at his mother’s gravesite. He walked into a gift shop in Virginia but found a lot more than he’d expected. The store owner learned of his tragic story and how his late mother lacked a proper grave to mark her resting place—where her son, Jamarius Burneson, visits to talk to her. “I had an instant connection to him the minute he walked into my store,” Deborah Keeling, owner of Accents Flags Gifts Home and Garden in downtown Lynchburg, told The Epoch Times. “My heart immediately connected.” Jamarius told NBC he was compelled to find a gift that day, saying “Jesus wants me to go, so I follow that.” The first thing he asked Deborah was whether she was a Christian, too. Deborah said she was. Jamarius’s birth mother, Alfreda, passed away in 2019 at age 33 after a battle with diabetes. Jamarius, …
Autistic Orphan Can’t Afford Grave for His Late Mom—Until He Walks Through Kind Store Owner’s Door
May 5, 2021
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