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- 1st September 1986. Manhattan, 56th street toward Broadway, on the west side of Manhattan.
- Hey! do you wanna go for some lunch?
- sure!
- 1sr September 1986 at lunch.
- Omg!!
- I live with my mother in a welfare hotel and numerous other relatives.
- Laura's house
- sure!
- I can make you lunch and leave it with my doorman for you to pick it up on your way to school
- Can you put the lunch in a brow paper bag, because then the other kids will know that someone cares of me, please.
- Laura Schroff was a successful executive and she made her way across 56th street toward Broadway, on the west side of Manhattan. A 11 years old boy with dirty clothes was asking for change to buy food, Laura just lowered her head and kept walking. But something in Laura made her drew back to the boy. She calls it an invisible thread, there's a Chinese proverb that Laura believes in. She turned back from the middle of the street and took the boy to lunch.
- Months later in Long Island. Lauras sister house.
- I want a dinner table like this one when I get a family of my own.
- The boy lived in a single room in a welfare hotel with his mother and other people. As they talked over lunch, Laura learned about the boy's life. She herself had not had an easy childhood, but what she learned shocked her, and before she left, she told him to phone her if he was ever hungry. And when she didn't heard anything of him she returned back to the spot and saw him, with the same clothes. They arranged to met again the next Monday.
- 1997
- An invisible ThreadNew York Times best sellers.
- Every Monday, Laura and Maurice had dinner together. Some Mondays they ate at Laura's home, and Maurice discovered a life he had only seen on television. Gradually she became the role first model of Maurice. She encourage him to have dreams and entered to school. She took charge of his studies and got him a teacher. Maurice's teacher was perhaps the only other person who believed in him. The two continued sharing dinner every Monday, and a close bond form between them.
- 15 years being friends later...
- Maurice had never left the city until Laura took him to meet her sister's famiy on Long Island. Her memory of the trip is a favorite one. She had expected Maurice to be amazed by the huge front law. But what amazed him the most was the large dining room table where they all sat down and talked and ate together. He declared that he wanted a table like that when he had a family of his own.
- Laura and Maurice's relationship lasted, and in 1997 a magazine published an article, it was less than a page long, about it. Laura's friend suggested that she write a book telling the whole story. Eventually she actually wrote a book called An Invisible Thread, reached number one on the New York Times best sellers list.Today Maurice works in construction. He is the first person in his family to earn a paycheck. He has a family of his own, and his children love aunt Laurie. If you visit the family's apartment, you might notice that there is no couch in the living room. But there is a huge dining room table. At the end he taught her to be grateful for what she has, and for the chance to share it.
- Maurice gives a speech publicly about how he meet Laura and his life now. He says that he wouldn't be the man he is today without Laura. That really touched Laura and was about to cry. Laura says that Maurice has taught her so many things. Some words that she said: His generosity of spirit continues to astound me, and to this day my relationship with him is the relationship I am most proud of in my life.
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