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We at Conari Press published Random Acts of Kindness to inspire and spread theword about the power of kindness. It did that and more: we have been floodedwith letters from readers, telling us of the kindness they have experienced intheir lives—simple acts that often left profound change in their wake. Eachstory was precious and powerful, from the simplest gesture to the mostunimaginable miracle. More Random Acts of Kindness grew out of the realizationthat we could not possibly keep these stories to ourselves. Sifting through thepiles of letters trying to pick which stories to publish was an almostimpossibly difficult task. In the end we simply went on instinct, selectingthose that moved us the most and offered the widest reflections on kindness.Throughout the sorting process we noticed a few things about the inner workingsof kindness as stories converged and themes repeated themselves over and overagain. One of the obvious (and at first surprising) realizations was that mostof the stories submitted, the ones people were almost desperate to tell, wereinvariably about kindnesses they had received. In each there was a giver and areceiver, but the need to tell the story was almost always from the person whohad been the beneficiary.