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A New York Times bestseller -- "Excuse me lady, do you have any spare change? I am hungry." When I heard him, I didn?t 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 noise -- the kind of nuisance New Yorkers learn to tune out. So I walked right by him, as if he wasn?t there. But then, just a few yards past him, I stopped. And then -- and I?m still not sure why I did this -- I 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 McDonald?s with Maurice turns into two, then into a weekly occurrence that is fast growing into an inexplicable connection, Laura learns heart-wrenching details about Maurice?s horrific childhood.