
I was 16. It was a cold winter day, and I was wearing my leather jacket and shivering. My brother had promised earlier to pick me up outside the old building near our house, for some reason. I was scared, because everyone there seemed ill and it was a really dark place. Since there was a blizzard outside, there was no sign of the sun and the sky was charcoal grey. I was standing by the door, looking nervous and shaking due to the weather. A woman came up to me. She seemed like a nice young woman, appeared to be in her mid-30's. She looked Korean, and she came up to me to talk to me. I don't know why, but I had an instant connection with this woman..i felt like i knew her from somewhere. We talked for a long time, i lost track of time. Suddenly, my cellphone rang and my brother asked me where I was. We said goodbye. I woke up and i was a sophisticated lawyer in a business suit. I had to go to the old building because my mommy really liked the raisin bread that the bakery had there. Inside the bakery, there was a young guy around my age really focused and reading his really long book about medicine. I asked him if he wanted to be a doctor, and he sounded as if he had no confidence in himself. "Besides," he said. "I can't afford tuition to university." He was like me when i was young (in reality, I am lacking confidence.)I talked to him a lot too, and we became really good friends. While I was ready to leave the building, I saw the Korean lady I met years ago once again reading the newspaper at the food court. I sat down in front of her and talked to her. It was always me who told her stuff, I was telling her about myself. She sat and chatted away with me, but she never told me anything about herself. I asked her if she wanted to eat at the restaurant nearby, since i didnt have lunch yet. She looked frightened by the thought of it and said "NO, NO! YOU GO EAT, IM GOING TO WALK AROUND THE BUILDING." What she said gave me a feeling that she was afraid to go into the restaurant. I felt like she was too poor to afford food and didn't want to go through the embarassment walking in. I felt really bad for her. The next morning, I went to the bakery and asked the guy if he has seen a Korean lady around with glasses, a little shorter than me. He told me she was a really poor lady who had recently divorced her husband and had no place to live. During the day, she would stay in the old building and walk around talking to no one. She was a miserable lady, and always walked past the building. The guy told me sometimes at the end of the day when he had leftover bread, he would give them out to her. I felt really bad for this lady, she seemed like a really nice woman. I left the guy $21.50 and asked if he could give her enough food for all 3 meals each day. I promised to go back in a couple of days to continue paying him for food for the lady if she really walked past and ate at the bakery everyday. A couple of days later, I went back to the building and the bakery was closed. I walked to the food court to look for the lady, but she was gone also. Nobody knew where they went, but some said they went to the city. Time had past by, and I had almost forgotten about the existence of these two unique people. I had to go interview at a law firm at a building for the most successful people with the best occupations in the world in a big city. I had originally booked an interview with the owner of the law firm, but when I was let into the room, there he was. The guy who owned the old bakery that nobody went to. He was dressed really really really really well. He had a Zegna suit and Prada Vernice shoes. He didn't look up when I entered the room though. He was busy checking up on his stock investments. "Tell me about yourself," he told me. I was too surprised to answer him. How could two people look so similar? I didn't answer him. He started looking really annoyed and looked me in the eye and asked me half the question. Then, his jaw dropped. Our long stare at each other was interrupted by a phone call. It was one of those webcam like phone calls where you can just talk into the phone and see the person on the other line. There was sound coming from behind, and the person he was on the phone with appeared on the television behind me. I didn't really look at the person, I just glimpsed for about 2 seconds to see a prosperous woman with a Hermes Birkin Bag and Cartier earrings. "We're opening our 23rd bakery in Beijing! Just when I was about to leave the room, the voice of the woman struck me. I felt like somebody had smashed my head from behind. I looked into the television, and there she was. The poor young lady who couldn't afford to eat. It was all just a camouflage. They were always rich, they were just looking for people with real, caring hearts. And in my dream, that person was me.



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