New Year’s Shift
So you’re at an ordinary neighborhood IHOP located in St. Charles, Illinois. As soon as you walk through the door, you smell delicious creamy buttermilk pancakes covered in sweet maple syrup. It’s New Year’s Day, and people gather with loved ones, laughing and enjoying their breakfast.
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Behind this beautiful scene is Bethany Provencher, spending her New Year’s workings hard to make ends meet. As a single mother who just moved from Florida, she needed to take that shift. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to join in the festivities like her customers. What Bethany didn’t know that it wasn’t just another day at the office. Her life was about to change.