It too contained a single word: “belong.”Ī third check, the next month. The next month, I received another check, again from VRI Incorporated. If you receive a mysterious check, for enough money to erase all your worries, would you cash it? No mention of repayment, interest, nothing…except a single word, on the notes line: “You.” Just those three letters. No hint of identity or reason for the check or anything. There was no name on the check, just “VRI Inc.,” and a post office box address for somewhere in the city. Enough to pay the bills and leave me some left over to live on until I found a job. Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an envelope in the mail. There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle.
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