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"Focus on me for a moment Maria"

Reluctantly her eyes pulled away fro down the street with the purse, as the old wo for help from nearby passerby's

"Just as it will drive you crazy to not do anything so will it if you try to fix all the wrongs of the world You are only human Maria You're not God Pick your battles and try to do the ood that you can with the lihtly, as she tried to ignore all the little terrible things that were happening all around us that so few in the croere even noticing

Ahello in a char to share his taxi with

Aa tourist look at what he was offering clipped to the clipboard in the for the tourist's fanny pack with a box cutter and stealing both their identity and vacationto pick up the 20 bill that fell fro it into his own pocket, with a furtive glance around to see if he'd been noticed

A tear slipped down Maria's cheek and I could sense through

"I don't like this!" Maria said her words alst caused by the turmoil that she felt all around her

"I don't like it either Maria, but……"

Maria vaulted out of her chair and shoved through the people on the packed sidewalk to dive into the street and scoop up a little boy that had wandered away froed out of the way of a fast- taxi that would've ran over the little boy, even as a slowerhalt in front of Maria

With the taxis' horn blaring loudly Maria quickly stepped from the street and delivered the boy back to his horrified parents Maria waived away their copious ' Thank You's ' and started backing away into the crowd that had gathered, until she pressed up against h to whisper into her ear, "but……… how does saving that little boy's lifesome sanity for?"

"Yes!" She breathed out

I took her hand then and led her out through the crowd that already begun to break up