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# Allow This Man to Remind You That People Can Be Surprisingly Generous

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by 

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## Samantha Grossman


Apr 21, 2015 8:44 PM UTC

by 

[Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/)


## Samantha Grossman


Apr 21, 2015 8:44 PM UTC

Two years ago, a woman posted a touching video of an emotional moment on the New York City subway. Now, after being posted [on Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/339iqk/lovely%5Fmoment%5Fof%5Fkindness%5Fon%5Fthe%5F6%5Ftrain/), the clip is making its way around the Internet once again.

It shows a woman selling roses on the 6 train for $1 each. A man begins to inquire about buying in bulk and offers to pay $140 for the entire bunch. Instead of taking the flowers with him, though, he tells her to do him a favor and just hand them out for free. The vendor agrees and then the anonymous man gets off the train and disappears. Then the woman bursts into tears.

“\[I think\] she started crying from the relief of someone actually being generous,” Maria Lopez, the bystander who filmed the exchange, [told](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/roses-nyc-subway-stranger%5Fn%5F7108512.html) the _Huffington Post_. “This one little gesture of humanity is so huge. It’s a testament to the lack of love and lack of generosity in the world. I think people are yearning for that.”

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