A Random Act of Kindness Missed

My silence that day haunts me still.

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4 min readSep 26, 2020

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Random acts of kindness have been the hallmark of my life for as long as I can recall.

When I was six years old, Miss Ivy plucked me from the streets of Kingston, fed me, clothed me, and sent me to school for nearly two years — all because I looked like her only son, who had died in a road accident.

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Often found in far-flung places reading Walter Mosley with a rucksack on his back.