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Nipun: On Lee and Laundry basket
From Nipun: On Lee and Laundry basket
Lee is quite a guy. He’ll buy basketballs for inner-city kids, he’ll write cards to cheer people up, he’ll give his neighbors honey from the bees that he nurtures in his basement (Lee loves bees!). He’ll even go stay with the homeless. One time, when he was living in a ghetto for some time, someone stole his laundry basket at a local laundromat. So he goes and buys another one, but when that gets stolen too, he went out and bought a dozen of them and would leave one in the laundromat everyday! After about a week, the baskets stopped getting stolen, people loosened their fears about guarding their laundry basket, and that little corner of the world was restored with trust.
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I told him a story of how I was once fed by a homeless man. “You see, Lee, I have this strange suspicion that no one is really poor. If you have kindness in your heart, if you offer whatever you have, you have won the world,” I said.
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