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Homeless man fights back tears as 4-year-old girl spends pocket money on food to ‘warm his belly on a cold day’
Remember that excitement you felt as a child, when you’d done all your chores and were rewarded with pocket money to spend at the local sweet shop?
Or maybe you’d save it for as long as you possibly could in order to buy the new toy that all of your friends had.
Whatever, it is unlikely you were planning something as altruistic as this little girl, who had more important things on her mind when it came to her pocket money.
It started when Mrs Rhoda Kirkpatrick, 29, from Aldershot, attended the Remembrance Day Parade at the Portsmouth Guildhall with her partner, who is a soldier, and their four-year-old daughter Lola.
In an exclusive interview with metro.co.uk, Mrs Kirkpatrick says: ‘On the way back through the town centre, going to the shops, my daughter spotted a man sat outside a nail bar and asked why he was sat there on the cold ground.’
Mrs Kirkpatrick explained to her daughter Lola that it was because he had no home to go to.
‘She has seen people pass down money to homeless people before and asked if she could do the same. Although proud of her intention, I said no only because (as I explained to Lola) sometimes they might use it for “naughty things” rather than food.’
Determined to help the man, Lola pointed to a nearby bakery and told her mother: ‘Well if I buy the food he can’t get the naughty things’.
So, Mrs Kirkpatrick took Lola to the bakery where she used her pocket money to buy a sausage roll for the man, telling her mother, ‘a warm one to warm his belly – because it’s rainy and cold today.’
After purchasing the sausage roll, Lola went a little shy. She handed him the sausage roll, and her mother explained why she was giving it to him.
Mrs Kirkpatrick says: ‘I saw the tears in his eyes, and as he repeatedly said thank you, I knew it was something he wouldn’t forget.’
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/10/homeless-man-fights-back-tears-as-4-year-old-girl-spends-pocket-money-on-food-to-warm-his-belly-on-a-cold-day-5490193/#ixzz3rCPwG9xx
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