The father and mother were at the front of the pack, standing proud. The mother, her husband's hand, watched him as saying: "You're my knight in shining armor." He smiled, filled with pride and looking like answering: "You're right."
The employee at the counter asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He answered proudly: "Please give me eight tickets and two adult children, in order to bring my family to the circus." The employee tells you the price.
The woman let her husband's hand, tilting his head and the man's lip began to twitch. This is a little closer and asked, "What did he say?".
The employee returned to repeat the price.
How could I turn around and tell his eight kids that did not have enough money to take them to the circus?.
Seeing what happened, Dad put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a twenty dollar bill and throw it down. (We were not rich at all. My father reached down, picked up the bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, sir, you dropped this from his pocket."
man realized what was happening. I had not asked for alms, but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, anxious and uncomfortable. I look at my father straight in the eye, with both hands he took hers, pressed the twenty dollar bill and with trembling lips and a tear rolling down his cheek, replied: "Thank you, thank you sir. This really means a lot to me family and me. "
Papa and I went back to our car and drove home. That night we went to the circus, but we left with nothing ...
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