No one expected him that day.
A man walked into InterAsian Market & Deli in Nashville and didn’t want to buy anything. He insisted that the owners, Somboon Wu and Keosavanh Xayarath, accept an envelope. When they opened it, they found 400 dollars in cash and a letter of apology.
The person who wrote it was the one who had robbed them in that same store more than ten years earlier. According to Wu, the amount was 300 dollars. In the letter, the man explained that back then he was addicted to drugs and that now, sober, he wanted to make amends for the harm he had caused. He returned the money and added 100 dollars more.
Wu posted the letter on Twitter and Instagram and spoke with WSMV News. His message was direct: if that man is watching, wherever life takes him, they forgive him for what he did.
The letter reads as follows:
“I am a drug addict. About 11 or 12 years ago, I robbed this store at gunpoint.
I no longer use drugs and feel that I owe it to the people I hurt in the past to make amends.
I came into your store around 9 or 10 in 2002 or 2003 and bought a six-pack of beer and asked for cigarettes. When the cashier opened the register to give me my change, I pulled out a gun and took approximately $300 from the cash register. Then I drove away in a white car.
I hope you accept this money and find forgiveness.
May peace be with you.
Anonymous”