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In
1978, I was working as a nurse in a small town about 270km away from Sydney,
Australia. I was looking forward to having five days off from duty. Unluckily,
the one train a day to my home in Sydney had already left. So I thought I'd get
a ride.
I
waited by the side of the highway for three hours, but no one stopped for me.
Finally, a man walked over and introduced himself as Gordon. He said that
although he couldn't give me a lift, I should come back to his house for lunch.
He noticed me standing for hours in the November heat and thought I must be
hungry. I was doubtful as a young girl but he promised me I was safe, and he
also offered to help me find a lift afterwards. When we arrived at his house,
he made me sandwiches. After lunch, he helped me find a lift home.
Twenty-five years later, while I was driving
to a nearby town one day, I saw an elderly man standing in the glaring heat,
trying to get a ride. I thought it was another chance to repay(回报) someone for the kindness I'd been given many years earlier. I
pulled over and picked him up. I made him comfortable on the back seat and
offered him some water.
After
a few moments of small talk, the man said to me, "You haven't changed a
bit, even your red hair is still the same."
I
couldn't remember where I'd met him. He then told me he was the man who had
given me lunch and helped me find a lift all those years ago. It was Gordon.