Facebook Group Rescues Divorcee From Poverty

Warm-and-fuzzy alert: Friends rallied around the organizer of a Facebook group who fell on hard times.

Facebook has a way of showing people who their real friends are whenever misfortune strikes.

That’s what Amy Pugh experienced when her husband walked out on her, their two children and three months of unpaid bills.

She’d been using Facebook to organize her 20th high school reunion, tracking down many former classmates on the social network.

While she was planning the event in Michigan, her husband was also using Facebook — to coordinate a long-distance affair.

Ten days after the reunion, he took off, possibly headed for Kansas.

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