rl get up, the man pulled a crumpled bag from his pocket and handed it to Carl.
“What’s this?” Carl asked.
“It’s your stuff,” the man explained. “It’s your stuff back. Even the money in your wallet.”
“I don’t understand,” Carl said.“Why would you help me now?”
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The man shifted his feet, seeming embarrassed and ill at ease.“I learned something from you,”he said.“I ran with that gang and hurt people like you. But every time we came and did something to you, instead of yelling and fighting back, you tried to give us a drink. You didn’t hate us for hating you. You kept showing love against our hate.”
He died one cold day after Christmas that winter. Many people attended his funeral in spite of the weather. In particular the minister noticed a tall young man that he didn’t know sitting quietly in a distant corner of the church.
The minister spoke of Carl’s garden as a lesson in life. In a voice made thick with unshed tears, he said,“Do your best and make your garden as beautiful as you can. We will never forget Carl and his garden.”
The following spring a flyer went up. It read: “Person needed to care for Carl’s garden.”
The flyer went unnoticed by the busy parishioners until one day when a knock was heard at the minister’s office door.
Opening the door, the minister saw a pair of scarred and tattooed hands holding the flyer.
The minister recognized him as the same young man who had returned the stolen watch and wallet to Carl. He knew that Carl’s kindness had turned this man’s life around.
卡爾這個人寡言少語。他話不多，通常是用燦爛的微笑和有力的握手來和你打招呼。我們看到他就擔心，雖然他參加二戰幸存了下來，但是他可能無法適應我們不斷變化的市郊住宅區，因為這裡肆意的暴力行為、犯罪團夥和販賣毒品的活動越來越多。
就在卡爾即將到87歲高齡的時候，讓我們一直以來擔心的事情終於發生了。那天他剛剛給花園澆完水，就有3個流氓向他走去。卡爾對這夥人恐嚇他的企圖視若無睹，隻是簡單地問道，“你們想喝點兒水管裡的水嗎？”
3個流氓裡個子最高、麵相最凶的那個說：“好啊，當然想喝。”說的時候臉上還帶著一絲壞笑。卡爾正要把水管遞給他，另外兩個流氓就抓住卡爾的胳膊，把他按倒在地。這下水管就像蛇一樣在地上瘋狂地亂扭，所到之處把什麼都給浸濕了，襲擊卡爾的這夥人搶完他退休時發的手表和他的錢包就逃走了。
。們他著望是隻爾卡。笑搞別特劇作惡的才剛們他得覺，著笑地後恐先爭，的咧咧罵罵還，聲噓出發裡嘴，了走地擺大搖大上街到回就爾卡完辱羞們他。透個了澆水的冷冰用腳到頭從他把，管水過搶中手他從是而，他劫搶有沒氓流小次一這是但。水的裡管水喝們他請次再爾卡。抗反到遇有沒也爾卡脅威次這們他，樣一次上如正。了來又氓流個３那，後之期星個幾
。來走他向子個高的首為中氓流個3的他磨折天夏到看頭扭，候時的來起站要著紮掙他當。裡條枝的物植綠常在倒跌果結，跳大一了嚇他把，人個一近走然突後身時作耕園花在正爾卡。來秋逝夏間眼轉。水澆花給續繼，管水起撿，陽太的融融暖對麵身轉才他後然
。擊襲的中之料意著待等神精起打他
。爾卡了給遞它把並，包的巴巴皺皺個一出掏裡袋口從，來起了站爾卡扶他。手的疤傷著留、身文有刺出伸爾卡向然依，道說聲輕人輕年個那”。你害傷會不我次這，家人老，心擔別“
。道問爾卡”？麼什是這“
”。錢的裡包錢你有還。你給還在現“。道釋解人輕年”，西東的你是這“
我“
