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were only a block from our destination.

As I was climbing back into the pickup,

Donna stopped me. She pointed to an

old woman who was sobbing on the

street corner. “I think you should find

out what she needs.”

I approached the woman and asked

her, above the din of the traffic, if I

could help her. She told me she was

blind, and that she had asked a friend

for a ride to the bank. She said the

friend had hurried her out onto this

corner and left. She said she knew it

wasn’t the right corner, and she was

disoriented and frightened.

I asked her the name of the bank,

and when she told me, I looked around

and saw it in the middle of the block

that was diagonal from us. I told her if

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