# Beggar

By [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@0xde38604e2eab680bd72b10c568a58f9ad871393c) · 2024-01-20

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At the gate leading to the Transfiguration Cathedral, an ageless woman, wearing a shabby, once green, beret:

*   God bless you and your loved ones...
    

A young man in a long coat with a leather folder under his arm walks past, hurrying somewhere. Mumbling under his breath:

*   I am a beggar myself, I have not seen Rome

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*Originally published on [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@0xde38604e2eab680bd72b10c568a58f9ad871393c/beggar)*