Strangers offer cash, housing to fired Walmart worker, newspaper reports

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  • Posted July 8, 2012 at 2:47 p.m.
Jan Sullivan, 73, is shown in the house she was forced to sell after Walmart fired her. She has moved into a mobile home. Photo courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times

Tampa Bay Times

Jan Sullivan, 73, is shown in the house she was forced to sell after Walmart fired her. She has moved into a mobile home. Photo courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times

Jan Sullivan, 73, is shown in the house she was forced to sell after Walmart fired her. She has moved into a mobile home. Photo courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times

Tampa Bay Times

Jan Sullivan, 73, is shown in the house she was forced to sell after Walmart fired her. She has moved into a mobile home. Photo courtesy of the Tampa Bay Times

ST. PETERSBURG — Jan Sullivan didn't know her story had been read 108,000 times on tampabay.com.

She didn't know that a woman in Bangalore, India, was thinking about her. That a man in Australia wanted to send her a check. That someone in Tampa had created an online account to help raise money for her.

Hundreds of people — all strangers — have offered cash, housing and, in many cases, friendship to Sullivan since the Tampa Bay Times reported her story July 1.

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