Your Life Changing Encounters with Strangers

Your Life-Changing Encounters with Strangers

Grace Hanadarko, the character at the center of TNT's "Saving Grace," would be just another hard-drinking, fast-living TV cop, if not for one thing. At one of her darkest moments, Grace encounters a stranger determined to change her life. This stranger, Earl, ends up being an angel, who does not give up on Grace.

The story got us wondering: How have encounters with strangers changed your life? In response, we received dozens of stories, and in the pages that follow, we've shared 10 of our favorites.