Vacuuming floors.
Washing windows.
Pulling weeds.
A few dollars here. A few dollars there.
Ryan started that night.
And he kept going.
For four months.
While other children played video games or rode bikes, Ryan vacuumed. He scrubbed windows. He hauled garbage. Every coin mattered because somewhere in the world, children were walking five thousand steps for water.
By April 1998, he had earned exactly seventy dollars.
He carried the money to his parents in a Ziploc bag and declared proudly:
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