"I kept in touch with my friend, and he got out about three months later. He went home to a different city and started school. A year later, he had dropped out of school and was losing his place to live. He'd bounced from job to job, but was broke and about to be homeless. I went to his city, picked him up, paid the gas or his car to get him to my house, and he stayed with me."
"About a year after that, he won the lottery there, some real money. He calls me up and says he is going to wire me money for all I did for him. He does, he wires me $2.5 million. This completely changes my life. I was 68 and able to retire and move to a small city where most of my friends live. I bought a house and put the rest into a ladder of tax-free municipal bonds."
A person was convicted of a crime about 30 years ago and sent to prison. During the initial days in prison, the person befriended another inmate and they kept each other out of trouble. The conviction was overturned after a year and the person was released. The friend was released later, struggled with school and housing, and became close to homelessness. The person brought the friend home and housed him for 23 years despite the friend's chronic unemployment, substance use, and difficult behavior. Years later the friend inherited money, later won a lottery, wired $2.5 million to the person, who retired, purchased a house, invested in tax-free municipal bonds, and now lives comfortably.
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