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BOB TREVINO’S GIFT is based on the real-life friendship that writer/director Tracie Laymon formed with a stranger while searching for her father online. Lily Trevino, who often acts as a caretaker for people like her father who should be looking out for her, yearns for a family connection after being abandoned by her mother as a child and then by her father in his twenties. Bob Trevino works long hours at a construction company alone to support his family and make a living as a scrapbooker. The couple has suffered greatly over the past decade, and Bob has struggled to put his wife first, to the point of ignoring his own feelings and need for friendship, meaning, and connection—until he receives an unexpected message on Facebook from the stranger. Lily and Bob’s budding friendship becomes a powerful source of connection and healing in their lives. Bob’s acts of fatherly kindness fill a void in Lily’s family’s lives that could change its course forever. In their own ways, both must learn that they deserve extraordinary love, expressed through small acts of kindness.
