Anyone could do that!

thAnks, mister,
For tAlking to me
I try to walk at least one or two miles daily. One
afternoon, on my daily one-mile walk, I was
reading printed-out copies of my email. A little
nine-year-old boy getting out of school walked
up behind me and said, “There you are again.
We talk about you at school all the time. This
old man that walks down the street reading.
What are you reading?”
Surprised, I simply answered “Oh, I’m
reading some letters from the people I work
with in other countries who work with street
kids.” He then asked, “What’s a street kid?”
I said, “A street kid is an orphan.” He replied,
“What’s an orphan?”
This really surprised me because here was a
boy of at least 9, not knowing what an orphan
was. I answered, “You know, that’s a good
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