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"Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar)" <hluthar

 

Harsha: Perhaps you have seen this. Someone sent it to me and I posted it a

while back. Thought you might enjoy it. I did.

 

Good News!

 

Robert De Vincenzo, the great Argentine golfer, once won a tournament and,

after receiving the check and smiling for the cameras, he went to the

clubhouse and prepared to leave. Some time later, he walked alone to his car

in the parking lot and was approached by a young woman. She congratulated

him on his victory and then told him that her child was seriously ill and

near death. She did not know how she could pay the doctor' s bills and

hospital expenses.

 

De Vincenzo was touched by her story, and he took out a pen and endorsed his

winning check for payment to the woman. "Make some good days for the baby,"

he said as he pressed the check into her hand.

 

The next week he was having lunch in a country club when a Professional Golf

Association official came to his table. "Some of the boys in the parking lot

last week told me you met a young woman there after you won that

tournament." De Vincenzo nodded. "Well," said the official, "I have news for

you. She's a phony. She has no sick baby. She's not even married. She

fleeced you, my friend."

 

"You mean there is no baby who is dying?" said De Vincenzo.

"That's right," said the official.

"That's the best news I've heard all week." De Vincenzo said.

>From The Best of Bits & Pieces

from Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul

Copyright 1996 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty

 

 

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