At 14, I was too poor to afford lunch, so I pretended I simply forgot it, until a kind teacher began bringing me food every day\u2014then she suddenly disappeared. Ten years later, now a lawyer, I saw her name on my appointment list and froze when she walked in; she was struggling after her husband of 20 years had left her for a younger woman and stolen their savings through a planned scheme. She couldn\u2019t afford a lawyer, so I took her case for free, determined to repay the kindness she had once shown me. We won, she recovered all her money plus damages, and when she hugged me and said I had saved her, I told her, \u201cI\u2019m only repaying a debt\u2014and you can always count on me.\u201dREAD MORE BELOW <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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