man with a happy heart

I met this guy in Manchester, you usually expect homeless people to be rude and smell bad, but this one wasn't, he was exeptionally polite and well educated. Showed me some pictures from a book about Chinese history he was reading at the moment... He likes eating basmati rice from Tescos, his son is studying history, must be a family thing :) I didn't ask about his name, shame.. 

Location: Manchester, Wielka Brytania

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