A 15-year-old girl is being praised all over the internet for assisting a blind and deaf passenger who was traveling alone on an Alaska Airlines Flight last week.

Tim Cook, a blind and deaf man, was traveling home to Portland Oregon from visiting his sister in Boston.

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As he boarded the flight, the passengers and crew tried their best to make his journey more comfortable. A man even gave Tim his aisle seat. The man, who had given up his seat, did his best to assist with things like opening coffee creamer and pouring it in his coffee.

But, as Tim tried to communicate with the flight attendants, they couldn’t understand sign language so they tried paging anyone who knew American Sign Language (ASL).

That’s when Clara Daly stepped in. She was traveling home with her mom from Boston to Los Angeles when their flight was cancelled. But it looks like Clara was meant to be on the same flight as Tim.

Another passenger, Lynette Scribner, saw what the teen was doing for Tim. “I observed a woman signing into a man’s hand, so he could feel her words,” she said.

Clara, who suffers from Dyslexia, had learned ASL for a year allow her to communicate in another way. The teen did her best to communicate with Tim.

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“I sat with Tim a few times on the flight and toward the end for about 30 minutes,” Clara said, Alaska Airlines reported. “He just wanted to talk.”

“I went to [Cook] a total of three times, once to get him water, another to tell him the time, and the last hour of the flight to just talk to him,” Clara said.

The crew and several passengers were so happy that Clara was willing and able to assist the stranger in need. “Clara was amazing,” an Alaska flight attendant said. “You could tell Tim was very excited to have someone he could speak to and she was such an angel.”

Jane, Clara’s mother, told Alaska Airlines her daughter felt their flight’s cancelation was meant to be.

“After the flight, Clara told me she thought it was meant to be that our original flight was canceled and we were placed on this flight, so she could be there to help Tim,” Jane said.

When they landed at their destination, Tim was picked up by a service provider from his senior living facility. He also said that the flight with Clara was the best one he’s ever taken in his life.

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