Tom from North Carolina wrote in to tell us his experience
in Rome. He saw a woman ostensibly carrying a baby in her arms (all he
saw was a rolled up blanket) and a child about 10 years old approached
me begging in a very confined sidewalk area. The pitiful expression on
her face would make an old grown man cry. He suddenly remembered warnings
he had read – while the tourist digs in his pocket for some coins the
kid circles around and slits the backpack or pocket. Fortunately he was
carrying his daypack with camera, etc. in front and his

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