Do you believe in miracles?

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The school was over by 12 PM that day. I had forgotten to inform my mother to pick me up by noon as usually my school ends by four. I was seven years old. My friends started leaving the campus one by one. By 2 Pm I was all alone on the campus. I could have gone to the school office and informed them. But I was too naive to have thought out such practical solutions. I hoisted my bag and kept waiting near the school gate. There was an auto driver staring at me from time to time. Strangely I wasn't afraid of him. After seeing me loitering around for nearly twenty minutes, he came near me and asked me why I hadn't gone home yet. I explained I didn't inform my mother about leaving early and there was no telephone at our house. He asked me the home address. I told him the locality. He drove me home with some address instructions from me. He dropped me in front of the house and asked me to go inside. I rang the doorbell and there was no one at home. I had to pay the auto driver too and I had no money. I asked him to drop me at a neighbor's place and he did. When I got some money from that neighbor aunty and tried to pay him, he wouldn't accept. He left after making sure, I knew my neighbors well. Apparently someone had informed my mother about the half day schedule and she had gone to the school to pick me up. Terrified I wasn't there, she was coming to our house in such panic along the street when I ran to her and told her what had happened. She was so relieved that I was safe and horrified too that I trusted a total stranger! She kept telling me that it was miracle that I came home safe. I never saw that driver again near my school. Had he not noticed me, I don't know what would have happened that day. There is no explanation for some things! Do you believe in miracles? Image: ahintofeverything