He’d built up much more of a tolerance to the cold conditions than I had. It wasn’t even a day before another prisoner found out what he’d done and gave him a long sleeve. And, once I was on my feet I bought the old man a couple sets of long johns. No one needs asked to take care of a man who’ll literally give you the shirt off his back.
You should have let him keep the shirt, dude. He had much less than you, so he deserved it more.
He’d built up much more of a tolerance to the cold conditions than I had. It wasn’t even a day before another prisoner found out what he’d done and gave him a long sleeve. And, once I was on my feet I bought the old man a couple sets of long johns. No one needs asked to take care of a man who’ll literally give you the shirt off his back.
With tears in his eyes, the old man cut fresh holes into the brand new long johns and offered me a pair.
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