“You must have dropped this,” Horn said, and slipped a $20 bill into the young man's hand. He made it look as if the money had come from the floor.
The young man paid for breakfast, pushed his car to the gas station and left town. He made himself a promise. He would remember this, and someday he would help others.
He already knew what it was to go without. He had grown up in Bruce, Mississippi, raised by elderly grandparents who lived on $33 a month. They heated bathwater on the stove and used an outhouse.