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Kindness of Strangers
An experiment
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So, I was on my way back to work after having had a nice lunch with Anders. Approaching me was this girl. She was nicely and ordinary looking girl. She asked me if I could help her out with some money. She had lost her wallet and now she had to some how get 95 Swedish monies. Telling me her story she started crying and she told me she felt so ashamed, that she had to beg for money. For some reason I decided to extend a loan to her, so I gave her all the money she needed for a ticket back home and gave her my number. She told me she would get back to me tomorrow and arrange for paying me back the money.

A few days ago I was walking home late in the evening. This little punk came up to me and first he pushed me and then he tried to spit at me. The fact that I was at least twenty years older and at least twenty years stronger, did not seem to occur to him. But naturally I walked away thinking that there is still room for improvements in this world.

So while I walked away from a "fight" the other day, I decided that I today did not want to walk away from a person in distress. Tomorrow I will find out whether the girl tricked me or if she was honest.

This is an experiment in the kindness of strangers.

- Aramis

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