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Ravi’s bicycle vanished on a Tuesday morning; on Thursday it was back, locked to the same post with a note.
The note read, “I’m sorry. I used it to get to an interview across town. I left bus fare in the basket. Thank you for the ride.” Anger softened into a complicated quiet. Ravi posted a picture of the note online and wrote that whoever had borrowed the bike could keep the lock code in case they needed it again—just to leave a message first. A week later a small envelope arrived with a keychain shaped like a tiny bike and a map marked with a red line from the apartment to a new job. Not all theft is the same story when you read the margins.
