The story is called "Shoe" (by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor & Patty Hansen.)
Collected from "The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes; Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Part of my "Core Stories" collection.
In my version, it simply symbolizes a wonderful sense of Caring.
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"As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track.
He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi
calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first.
Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled, "The poor man who finds the shoes
lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair he can use."
Moral of the story:
"Be generous and share your food with the poor. You will be blessed for it." (Proverbs: 22-9)
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