“Mommy Hasn’t Eaten,” the Boy Whispered—He Didn’t Know a CEO Who’d Once Gone Hungry Was Listening

to end up in each other’s path.”

Rachel smiled. “You really think the universe is that intentional?”

“I think people are,” he said. “The universe gives us chances. We decide what to do with them.”

Twenty years after that first Christmas Eve, a local journalist interviewed Oliver for a story about community philanthropy. He was thirty now, running a nonprofit continue reading …