The boy said he wanted to give flowers to people "who looked sad" to cheer them up.

“When I caught up to him and his mom, they were just leaving and they said they were headed from the mall to the hospital to delivery more roses,” KIRO 7 photographer Terry Griffin wrote on Facebook.

“I shook the little guys hand and told him he was an awesome kid and that I was really impressed with him,” Griffin wrote. “(His) gift made my day a little bit brighter.”

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Moravian missionaries started a boarding school for Cherokee children near Spring Place in the early 19th century. God's Acre is where one of the missionaries and one of her students are buried. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is sponsoring legislation to investigate such schools. (Natrice Miller/AJC)

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