Doris Buffet -- Giving it all Away

“She’s always had an enormous empathy for the person who really has gotten a short straw in life… when people have terrible experiences unrelated to their actions, it hits a cord with her immediately,” says Warren Buffet, about his sister, Doris Buffet.

Doris Buffet grew up during the depression.  Her own financial situation has been up and down throughout her life, but now she is fabulously wealthy and wants to give it all away.
She gets thousands of letters from people that want or need her help.  She sends them a questionnaire, sometimes requesting IRS statements, doctors bills, and other paperwork.  Then she talks with them on the phone & says it’s very easy to tell who genuinely needs her help.  She has responded to more than 10,000 people and believes that maybe 3 or so have taken advantage of her.  The rest were deserving and she adamantly won’t “give to SOB’s.”
Examples of who she has helped:  a grandmother who wanted gravestones for her three grandchildren who died in a fire, a mother with medical bills when her daughter got a rare fungal disease, an elderly couple that never owned a home.  These are fairly common requests.  It's nice to see that she doesn't reserve charity for the virgin PhD's who founded Doctors without Borders, never had a drink, read the Bible every day, and have committed only two of the seven deadly sins.

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