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Celebrate Kindness at Today's 'Kindness Fair' at Miss Marilyn's Second Chance

Marilyn Chivetta started Miss Marilyn's Second Chance as a place to not only offer designer clothes at reasonable prices, but also to offer help to her community.

For the last year, there's been no sign on Miss Marilyn's Second Chance Boutique to identify it as a nonprofit, but that hasn't kept people from finding it—or kept Marilyn Chivetta from helping.

Women would come in crying, out of work and needing interview clothes, and Marilyn would give them a hug and direct them to the back of the store.

"We have suits here for $3," she'd tell them.

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"You have to choose to be kind," Chivetta told Patch in an interview this past week. "It's not random."

At last week's Wentzville Board of Aldermen meeting, Chivetta was awarded a proclamation by Mayor Nick Guccione for performing 1,376 acts of kindness in the past year.

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"I urge all citizens to practice acts of kindness for family, friends, acquaintances and strangers, and to live their lives in keeping with this attitude every day," the proclamation reads.

To kick off another year of kindness, the nonprofit is holding an Acts of Kindness Fair from noon to 5 p.m. today, Saturday, May 18, in the parking lot outside the store at 144 East Pearce Boulevard.

Chivetta and her staff will be giving away helmets, water bottles and cupcakes, and visitors can enjoy live music.

Being kind is all in a day's work for Marilyn Chivetta, a woman whose life has been full of struggles, successes, downturns and dreams. She's even been on the Dr. Phil Show—but that's a story for another day.


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