Stories · Small Kindnesses

Two Cones of Gelato

12 min · Everyday kindness · Kindness · A gentle smile

On a sunlit seaside promenade, a tired stranger notices a small child’s dropped ice cream and answers it with a gesture so simple it is almost invisible, and discovers, walking home, that the one most quietly changed by a kindness is often the one who gave it.

An original Somnus story.

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Story 9 of Small Kindnesses, starting at 1:46:22.