I write and watch TV at the same time. As I type this, I'm watching the Andy Griffith Show, the episode called Opie's Charity.
It's a rather interesting episode. The school is collecting for the Underpriveleged Children's Fund. Andy, on the board of directors of the Charity, is surprised and embarrassed to learn that his son Opie has only given 3 cents.
When Andy asks him about it, Opie says he's saving up the rest of his money to give a present to his "girlfriend", Charlotte. (Both Opie and presumably Charlotte are 6 years old or so.)
Throughout the episode Andy gets madder and madder, because he is being embarrassed because his son won't give more than 3 cents to a charity of which he is on the board, until he sets Opie down and specifically asks him what he's going to give Charlotte as a present, and Opie says he's going to give her a winter coat, because the one she's got is all raggedy.
In other words, Charlotte is an under-priveleged kid, and Opie is going to help her directly.
(The other plot in the story is that some guy has left his wife, hasn't spoken to her in two years, and comes back 2 years later hoping to be taken back. This being the 1960s, his wife takes him back, instead of kicking him along the road....)
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