“Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.”

– Author Unknown

“You read a lot?” he asked, then looked up. “You look like a reader.”

He was right and I wondered how he could tell from our brief interaction.

New to the job and the building, it had taken some time to find the Shipping and Receiving Department. Turned out, it wasn’t really a department at all – just an old desk and chair under a large, metal staircase in a garage where big trucks were parked. Someone had hung a couple sheets of bristol board on the underside of the steps to prevent dust and debris from falling onto the person below. A man dressed in green work pants and a blue shirt had greeted me. We made small talk as he filled out the packing slip. I...

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