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Many years ago,when I was
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out of school and working in Denver,I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station about 50 miles from Oklahoma City,where I was
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to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款臺),I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.
I took off,but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and
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what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my
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. We chatted on the way into the city,and when I got out of the car,the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thankyou note
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helping me. Soon afterward,I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came
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it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.
Years later,I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights
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all day,and the battery(電池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership—a shop selling cars—was right next door. I walked over and found two
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in the showroom.
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drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment,so when I got home,I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write
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“Thank you”—two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much.