I Always Gave a Few Dollars to a Homeless Man on My Way to Work — on Christmas Eve, He Said, ‘Don’t Go Home Today…There’s Something You Don’t Know!’

“Hey,” I said. “I brought upgrades.”

I spread the blanket over his knees, set down the bag, and handed him the thermos.

His hands shook.

At first I thought it was the cold.

Then he looked up at me, and I saw it: fear.

Real fear.

“Thank you,” he said hoarsely. “Claire.”

My stomach dropped.

“I never told you my name,” I said.

“How do you know who I am?”

He swallowed.

“Please don’t go home today… There’s something you don’t know!” he said.

The back of my neck went cold.

“What?”

“Stay with your sister,” he said. “Or a friend.

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