A newlywed woman reflects on the kindness of one fast-food worker that helped her get to where she is today. “I was in 94 foster homes, six shelters, a group home and a treatment center when they ran out of places to keep me.'
"I knew it was somewhere that I would be safe to run to, and if I was starving, I would be able to get fed," says Jamie West.May 26, 2023, 8:15 PM UTCA newlywed woman reflects on the kindness of one fast-food worker that helped her get to where she is today.
“I was born to two adults who should have had to apply for a license in order to procreate. Then the Arizona CPS system in the '80s was really bad. Like, really, really bad,” West says, adding that her time in that system led to some very dangerous situations. “I had been running away for a few years prior and by the time I was 12, I figured how to not run back into the system and how to stay out.
“After a while, I ended up getting really sick and I realized that once again, I was making life choices that were gonna end up killing me,” she says, adding that she was around 15 when she left California, traveling around the country while picking up odd jobs and farm work.“I’d hitchhike from one place to another trying to find work, just rambled across the country,” West says. “I had been hungry for over a week when I came across my first White Castle.
While she was in the bathroom, the White Castle employee had bagged every burger cooking on the grill, placing each and every one in bags for the teen. West started to make a fuss about getting that much food for free, but the good samaritan wasn’t having it.“She said she was just gonna throw them away anyway, and so it was best to go to feed somebody,” West says, adding that the woman poured her three glasses of ice water to go with the food.
When West heard that White Castle was coming to Arizona for the first time in 2019, she was excited, remembering the kindness of the workers that helped her throughout her teens. “I freaked out. I turned to Drew and I was like, ‘We’ve got to camp out! We’ve got to storm the castle! I want to get crowns and battle axes and swords,’” she says.interviewed the couple at the time
For the wedding, there was only one acceptable location on the couple’s list: White Castle. Luckily, it also happens to have a kitchen that can churn out food for 200 guests with ease.
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