beggar

The story is told of a man who had begged on the streets for a living.
One day he touched a man on the shoulder and said, "Hey, mister, can you give me a dime?" (That was many years ago when a dime was worth much more than it is now.)
As soon as he saw the face of the man he had asked, he was shocked to discover that it was his own father!
He cried out, "Father, father, do you know me?"
The father looked at him, then suddenly threw his arms around him and with tears in his eyes, said, "Oh, my son, at last I've found you! I've found you! You want a dime? Everything I have is yours."
The beggar said, "Think of it. I was a tramp. I stood begging my own father for ten cents, when for 18 years he had been looking for me to give me all he had."