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If You Could Do This...
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 22 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It's about ordinary people - from every walk of life, every background - who one day choose to stop, engage, and offer the one thing only they can give: their own lived story.
We live in an era of contactless everything. Drive-through charity. Venmo a cause. Feel better. Move on.
This book quietly, firmly asks: what if you didn't?
What if you sat down? What if you offered not money, not food, not a carefully maintained distance - but two minutes and the truest thing you know about yourself?
If You Could Do This... is a series of small, cinematic moments - a park bench, a coffee shop doorway, a grocery store parking lot, a shade tree on a busy road - where ordinary people chose to stop treating invisible people as invisible.
Not all of them changed a life. Not all of them even tried twice. But some did. And those moments - quiet, unremarkable to anyone watching - turned out to be the ones that mattered most.
To the stranger.
And to themselves.
For readers of Tuesdays with Morrie, The Alchemist, and The Giving Tree - a story that doesn't end on the last page. It ends the next time you walk past someone sitting still in a world that punishes stillness.
And stop.
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