At the airport in Miami,when it was finally Mary’s turn at the checkin counter,she __3__ her luggage on the baggage line.But she got the __4__ that would crush her bubbling feeling of happiness:“You’ll have to pay 103 dollars __5__ you want to bring those suitcases to Norway,” the man said.
Mary had no money.Her new husband had travelled __6__ her,and she had no one else to call. “I was completely __7__ and tried to think which of my things I could __8__ without.” said Mary.
Although she explained,he showed no signs of __9__. “I started to cry,tears were __10__ my face.Then I heard a __11__ and friendly voice behind me saying, ‘That’s OK,I’ll __12__ her.’”
Although this happened 20 years ago,Mary still remembers the __13__ that radiated from the man. “He was nicely and __14__ dressed,with brown leather shoes,a cotton shirt open at the throat,” says Mary.She was __15__ to be able to bring her suitcases and __16__ the stranger that he would get his money back.The man wrote his name and __17__ on a piece of paper which __18__ “Barack Obama” and “Kansas”.Mary carried the paper around in her wallet for years.She paid the 103
dollars back to Obama the day after she arrived in Norway.
This week we met her in the café that she runs. “It’s __19__ to think that the man who helped me 20 years ago is the US President,” says Mary __20__.
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