He called his parents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I am coming home but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend, I'd like to bring home with me."
"Sure," they replied, "We'd love to meet him."
"There's something you should know," the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has no where else to go and I want him to come and live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that son. May be we can help him find some place to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us."
"Son," said the father, "you don't know what you are asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden to us. We have our lives to live and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."
At that time, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Fransisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was a suicide.
The grief-stricken parents flew to San Fransisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg.
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