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Excuse me lady, do you have any spare change I am hungry. When I heard him, I didnt really hear him. His words were part of the clatter, like a car horn or someone yelling for a cab. They were, you could say, just noisethe kind of nuisance New Yorkers learn to tune out. So I walked right by him, as if he wasnt there. But then, just a few yards past him, I stopped. And thenand Im still not sure why I did thisI came back. When Laura Schroff first met Maurice on a New York City street corner, she had no idea that she was standing on the brink of an incredible and unlikely friendship that would inevitably change both their lives. As one lunch at McDonalds with Maurice turns into two, then into a weekly occurrence that is fast growing into an inexplicable connection, Laura learns heart-wrenching details about Maurices horrific childhood.
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Laura Schroff is an international and #1 New York Times bestselling author and keynote speaker. Since the launch of her books, An Invisible Thread and An Invisible Thread Christmas Story, Laura has become a passionate and compelling voice on the power of acts of kindness and human connections. Laura's new book, Angels on Earth: Inspiring Stories of Fate, Friendship and the Power of Connections, will be on-sale October 25, 2016. Laura is a former advertising executive, who worked with major media companies, including Time Inc. and Condé Nast, and was part of the USA Today advertising launch team and worked at Ms. magazine. Born and raised on Long Island, Laura lives in Westchester with her feisty poodles Coco and Emma.
