Somebody told me to post the story here, so I figured I would.
In high school, I had a history teacher that was a little bit of an oddball. She would make the class do things that were a little out of the ordinary and people would often call her crazy. At some point, she mysteriously left the school and I never really heard from her again.
Years later in college, I somehow managed to reconnect with her. Turns out that she lived in the same city that I went to college in. Apparently she (34) was going through a divorce, and me being the naive 20 year old that it was, I figured that it would be nice to reconnect and maybe see if I could cheer her up with my company. We met up over coffee and caught up, eventually getting to the point of going out almost every weekend to go hiking, getting dinner, going shopping, and more.
She would buy things for me sometimes, sometimes she would even give me bundles of cash. She once handed me $300 and I was almost convinced she got it through illicit means, but no, she apparently was in a church that was allegedly culty and she convinced some of the members to raise money just for me.