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TUESDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER
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My mother has told two people about the man in the apron, and one of them has now written to me directly, so that is the family in the newsletter.
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Yours came in all day, and the odd thing about them is that almost nobody described a face, though everybody described a job.
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So here are three, short, and you will see the pattern before I point at it.
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Rūta, and the conductor
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A man came down the bus, did not ask for her ticket, and told her she was getting off two stops early, which she did without arguing.
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Rūta, the useful part is that you went. Somebody with no authority over you told you to get off and you got off, so whatever that stop stands for, part of you has already agreed to it.
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Then Tomas, who opened his own front door to a woman he did not know, and let her in, and made her tea before it occurred to him to ask anything.
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These strangers are not wandering in, they are all doing a job, and the job is the message. A conductor moves you along, and a visitor comes in and sits down.
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These strangers are not wandering in, they are all doing a job, and the job is the message.
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