Living On Kindness
Connecticut, where he lived, had bitterly cold winters and his hope, before this check, was to survive from the donations and gifts from strangers. He would later get the biggest gift he could ever get, but he didn’t even know.
Ignored Elmer
Elmer starts the story of the luckiest day of his life by saying that he was walking during a chilly morning. He didn’t feel lucky as strangers ignored him while he begged them to spare just a bit of change.