On August 1st, my wallet with a month\u2019s rent was stolen. While I cried on a park bench, an older man gave me a check for the exact amount, saying a stranger once helped him buy a suit for his first job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the airport for my mother\u2019s funeral, I missed my flight. A woman with a toddler sat with me, gave me tissues, and then her family bought me a new ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a train, I grew annoyed at a restless child until her exhausted mother left me a chocolate and a note explaining her daughter\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a coffee shop, a stranger let me borrow her charger so I could finish a paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In high school, when my shoes were falling apart, a girl quietly gave me new sneakers, pretending they were leftovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A regular at the caf\u00e9 where I worked bought extra coffees for homeless people on a freezing day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After my father died, a quiet neighbor mowed our lawn every week until my mom recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a museum guard, I let a blind boy touch the art to \u201csee\u201d it; I was later promoted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When my car broke down in the rain, a stranger fixed it without a word and drove off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A student gave up her portfolio so a quieter boy\u2019s stolen artwork could be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the grocery store, when I paid for a man\u2019s declined items, he gave me a hand-carved elephant\u2014the last piece of his old life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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