The Importance of Small things

You make me feel guilty. I didn’t think people still cared anymore.

He was an older man, African-American, with a small hat and a black jacket. I wonder what his life had brought him that a few people in front of a supermarket asking for food bank donations could seem so unlikely. And I’m grateful that despite my frustrations with things in general, the specifics around me are of people who do indeed still care.

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