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Sitting by
the window of her convent, Sister Barbara opened a
letter from home one evening. Inside the letter was
a $100 bill her parents had sent.
Sister
Barbara smiled at the gesture. As she read the
letter by the window, she noticed a shabbily
dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post
below.
Quickly, she
wrote, "Don't despair. Sister Barbara," on a piece
of paper, wrapped the $100 bill in it, got the
man's attention and tossed it out the window to
him. The stranger picked it up, and with a puzzled
expression and a tip of his hat, went off down the
street.
The next day,
Sister Barbara was told that a man was at her door,
insisting on seeing her. She went down, and found
the stranger waiting. Without a word, he handed her
a huge wad of $100 bills.
"What's
this?" she asked.
"That's the
$8,000 you have coming, Sister," he replied. "Don't
Despair paid 80-to-1."
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