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For Diane and Robert E. Findlay, showing kindness is as simple as looking past what a person has done.

The two are donating books to the Dallas County Jail, but making the experience personal for inmates. They got the idea to send books to the jail from their faith-based book club during the pandemic.

The Findlays thought it was a good idea since they felt like inmates were a group of people who were being overlooked.

"These are people who at various levels and for various reasons have made mistakes and they have a lot of time on their hands," Diane said. "If we can help them use that time constructively ... that's a good thing."

To make the experience personal, the couple gave surveys to the jail staff to distribute to those behind bars. The surveys asked what kind of books the inmates were interested in reading.

"People were interested in every genre we presented, and there was like 21 of them from poetry to westerns and self-help and language … So we are working at trying to get all of those genres," Robert said.

From that survey, Robert and Diane discovered one person wanted to learn Spanish, so they made sure to include a Spanish book along with the other books sent to the jail.

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