A Little Girl Asked for Soup With Three Coins… Fifteen Years Later, She Returned What the Vendor’s Own Son Had Stolen
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Chapter 24 - The Golden Award
The City of Madrid awarded Mateo the Gold Medal of Civic Honor at a ceremony held in the grand hall of the Cibeles Palace. Surrounded by government officials, dignitaries, and journalists, the humble old man stepped up to the podium in a simple charcoal suit bought for him by Lucia. Looking out at the grand crowd, he adjusted the microphone and spoke only two sentences: "I am not a hero. I only gave a hungry child a bowl of soup. The real miracle is what that child did with her life afterward."
