Generosity Restores Old Man’s Memory

Al-LAITH, 30 November 2006 — Nothing like a little philanthropy to jog the memory. A generous elderly man from Al-Laith, about 350 kms down the coast from Jeddah, donated SR70,000 to seven poor youths so they could get married. While attending the weddings, something caused the old man to remember his own wedding as well as other lost memories — including all the people, including in-laws, he had loaned money to that never bothered to pay him back. According to the Arabic daily Okaz, the old man’s debtors did not deny that they had “forgotten” to pay him back. Now that his memory has been set right, it seems these borrowers will have to pay back what they probably had written off years ago as a freebie.