and discovered that, in fact, the services of the current restaurant were superior. He approved the renewal not as a favor, but as an informed decision that, without that night, he might not have bothered to investigate.
The reunion nine years later
Time passed. Nine years later, one night while watching television, Ioana called her husband urgently. In a report on a network of family homes for children in the protection system, Vlad appeared. He was now the director of an association that had already opened four homes in the province of Argeș. When asked about his motivation, he replied that every person he had come across in life, whether to help him or to put obstacles in his way, had taught him something valuable.
The couple contacted him and they met at a café in Pitești. When the narrator confessed to him what happened to the contract years ago,






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