For months, I believed the two children next door were the sweetest and most responsible kids in our neighborhood.
Every Sunday morning, they appeared outside carrying one huge black trash bag between them. They quietly walked from house to house, picking up cans, wrappers, and anything else scattered along the street.
They never complained.
They never asked for money.
They never seemed to expect anything in return.
I admired them.
While other children spent Sunday mornings sleeping or staring at their phones, these two were making our neighborhood cleaner.
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