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Homelessness is an epidemic across this country and the rest of the world. There are millions of people out there who don’t have a home to go back to, a roof over their heads, a warm plate of dinner or a nice cozy bed. They live in treacherous conditions in extreme cold and heat as they try to survive in anyway they can. A lot of times people fall into hard times by no fault of their own, things snowball out of control and before they know it they are out on the streets and homeless.
They go through the trash for food, beg people walking past them on the street for some spare change just so they can eat something before they fall asleep on the sidewalk. Many people in cities are so used to seeing homeless people, that they have almost become invisible.
Day after day people in the city walk past them and it has become such a common site that they are almost numb to it. They feel by not acknowledging their existence they won’t feel guilt about walking right passed them without a second thought. The whole situation is so heartbreaking and there really is no easy answer to solve this terrible epidemic..
In today’s story we feature a mother named Karine Gombeau from France who had been on a trip to New York City for a few weeks. Like many tourists who visit New York City she was just exploring the vast city taking in all the amazing sights of Manhattan. After a while she got hungry and stopped off at a great pizza place to get some of that world famous New York Pizza which is the best pizza in the world (according to many).
She got a small pizza pie and ate a few slices at the place. She got the rest of the pie boxed up to go, and headed back to her hotel. On the way back, she spotted a homeless man who was scouring through the garbage to fill his empty stomach with some kind of food. She immediately felt her heart drop and she felt the need to help him. The only problem was she had no spare change or money in her purse just a debit card..
That’s when she realized she had some leftover pizza and she knew she had to offer the poor homeless man some food. At first she felt kind of bad that it was all she had to give, but at least it was something and he wouldn’t have to go to bed hungry. She gave him the food and actually apologized to him for it being cold, but he was so happy he didn’t mind one bit. He thanked her and blessed her as she walked off back to her hotel.
She went to sleep that night and didn’t give too much thought to her encounter with the homeless man and the pizza. The next day she did some more tourist stuff and exploring and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. She headed back to hotel again and fell asleep after another long day of walking. The next morning she woke up to something she would never expect in her wildest dreams!
There was a headline on the front page of the paper with a picture of her giving that pizza to the homeless man on the street! She couldn’t believe it and she also couldn’t understand how giving a homeless man some pizza was newsworthy. That’s when she realized who the homeless man was…..
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