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// Not a kind place 
// Story: Take What You Can Get 
// by Inspiration 
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	Cold. Starving. Sad. These are what I would use to describe the poor, poor bastards who end up on the streets. Granted, of course, I was one of them before. It...was not my kind of place. Hell, it wasn't a kind place, period. But I managed. Day by day, pickpocketing the mares and stallions who had it made, building my little shacks everywhere. I could normally take street life. The day I met her, though, well, my life was flipped upside-down.
It had been a colder-than-usual day. Tuesday, I think. I had been performing my usual routine of "steal this from them, steal that food from this house, et cetera" and sleeping. What else will a bum do? Anyways, I just stole...hmm...I think it was a loaf of bread and a stick of butter. Oh, and bits. Lots of bits. Usually blew them on something stupid, like booze or something.
I was out of the target house and walking down the street, looking through the steal. Counting the ton of bits. I just looked up after counting about 270 bits, when I bumped into her, spilling whatever she'd been carrying everywhere. And me, being the courtious bum I was, began to pick things up and apologize.
"Oh, oh my, um, sorry about that. I should've been looking where I was going."
"Oh, no no no, it's my fault. I'm so, so sorry about running into you like that."
"But, ma'am, I was the one who ran into you."
"No, I think it was me who ran into you."
She was soft-spoken, nice, apologetic, and even cute. I liked her already. We went back and forth on this for...15 minutes, maybe? Yeah, 15 minutes. When she, for Celestia knows what reason, invited me to her home.
"Would you, um, maybe like to...to come to my house? You don't have to if you don't want to, I just want to know if you'd like to come home with me..."
"Miss, I would love to come with you to your house. But why be as kind as you are to a stranger? A homeless stranger, might I add."
"Because I love to show kindness."