Three weeks ago, Mike Esmond was a simple small businessman who wanted to do a good deed for the community that has given so much to him over the years. So he walked into Gulf Breeze City Hall and paid off past due utility bills for 36 families for Christmas.
Today, one week after the News Journal featured Esmond in a front-page story about his good deed, his simple act of kindness has reverberated across the globe and inspired hundreds, if not thousands, of others to follow in his footsteps.
“To say overwhelming, or anything like that, is an understatement,” Esmond told the News Journal while sitting at the dinner table in his Gulf Breeze home on Monday. “When you start getting messages from different countries all around the world, talking about how you’ve inspired them, it’s just mind-boggling to me.”
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