Dr. Ellen Langer
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How could it have been wonderful?
Tell me.
So I go to the Charles Hotel to live now because I don't have a house.
And I have my two dogs.
And so I'm a sight to be seen, right?
You know, marching.
Okay.
It's Christmas.
Wow.
On Christmas Eve, I go out, I come back, and my room is full of gifts, not from the hotel management, not from the hotel owner, but from the so-called little people, the people who parked my car, the chambermaids, the waiters and waitresses.
It was years that when telling the story, I would cry.
Now, I've told it so many times.
And I don't remember, except for one thing, anything that I lost in the fire.
But every Christmas, I'm reminded of what I think is the basic goodness of people.
Wow.
Why do they give you all those gifts?
Just to be nice, because it was Christmas.
Wow.
Yeah.
And they knew what had happened.