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Single mom Kim Kerswell thought getting into a pricey fender-bender was the worst thing that could have happened to her weeks before Christmas.
It turned out to be the best.
Not only did the woman she hit forgive any damages to her car, she volunteered to save Christmas for Kerswell and her family.
“You could tell she was stressed,” Sherene Borr told the Daily News on Tuesday.
Kerswell rear-ended Borr in a Milford, Mass. parking lot last week, outside the Panera Bread where Kerswell works. As the women exchanged information, Kerswell divulged she was struggling to make ends meet, and raising two kids on her own.
An accident was the last thing the 30-year-old mom needed.
“Shewasn’t sure if they could even afford Christmas,” Borr said.
“I explained to her that I grew up in a single mom family, and know how difficult it is.”
Borr, 37, offered to adopt Kerswell’s family for the holiday season and make sure her children had presents under the tree.
“For me, she’s like an angel,” Kerswell told WBZ-TV.
Borr, who also has two children, enlisted friends to help purchase all the gifts — including One Direction memorabilia for Kerswell’s 12-year-old daughter and a toy truck for her 3-year-old son.
“I have a good sense of when people are really in need,” Borr said. “I could just tell. We both ended up in tears.”
Borr, who is Jewish, adopts families every Christmas season with help from her synagogue.
She’s making sure Kerswell is stocked with groceries, gift cards, and toys and clothes for her kids.
Kerswell vows to pay Borr’s kindness forward when she can.
“I know things are going to get better and when they do, my daughter and I, and my son, we’re going to help another family,” Kerswell told WBZ-TV.
The moms say they’ll “absolutely” be friends well after the holidays are over.
rmurray@nydailynews.com