Little did he know, that purse would become his key to recovery.
When he found the expensive purse in “an unsavory part of town”, he found a wallet, several receipts, utility bills, and notes belonging to someone named Kaitlyn.
Though the cash and credit cards were all gone, he was spurred to try and return the purse to the original owner.After locating her address on one of the electric bills, Aeric then began a long, arduous journey to Kaitlyn’s neighborhood. He was kicked out of stores when he tried asking for directions and he had to sell his bus pass in exchange for a subway ticket.
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Meanwhile, Kaitlyn had already assumed that her purse was long gone when she saw Aeric walking through her neighborhood.
“My roommate and I were walking down our street to a friend’s surprise party when I saw a man in a tattered, dirty white t-shirt and jeans hustling toward us, head down… carrying my purse!” says Kaitlyn.
“I offered the man money to buy it, which he politely declined and insisted he had to return it to a lady named Kaitlyn, who lived up the street. I told him I was that lady, and he melted down, exhausted, saying he found it in an alley near Upton Market.”
“He told me … he wanted to return my purse because someone had recently stolen his sleeping bag from the abandoned house where he was staying and he could only imagine my frustration as he had felt the same way.
”Touched by Aeric’s kindness, Kaitlyn and her…
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