Billy Ray Harris said he doesn't think he deserves all the attention he's getting.
A HOMELESS man set to get $US145,000
for returning a woman's diamond engagement ring is uncomfortable at the
attention he got and worries for a world shocked by his honesty.
Sarah Darling accidentally dropped her diamond engagement ring into
Billy Ray Harris' coin cup in Kansas City and he kept it safe and gave
it back to her when she returned to his patch a few days later. Her
grateful fiance set up a website which has already raised $US145,000
($A141,622) for Mr Harris, who frequently begs on Kansas City's Country
Club Plaza.
Mr Harris, though grateful for the donations from
strangers from around the world, is uncomfortable with all the attention
his kind act has received but insists the ring simply wasn't his to
keep.
"What I actually feel like is what is the world come to when a person
returns something that don't belong to em and all this happens?," he
said.
"I could tell just how much it meant to you, the moment I held
it up like that," he said to Ms Darling re-enacting for the cameras her
reaction when he showed her that her ring wasn't lost.
News of
the story has also led to Mr Harris being reunited with his family. His
sister Robin saw him on the local TV news at her home in Texas and
contacted the reporter on the story to help arrange a reunion with all
of his siblings.
"Sixteen years later and we just now found out
he's still living. I want him to come home, but I can't make come
home. But I want him to know we love him and we miss him," Robin said.
Mr
Harris described the upcoming reunion with his family as "a gift" and
even though he hasn't seen them in years he insists he and his sisters
remain his best friends.
Mr Harris, who lives under a bridge,
admits he doesn't think he deserve all the attention he's getting but he
is now considering an offer to move in with his sister. He doesn't
want to be a burden and said he finds being a cause celebre stressful.
"It's more stressful than what I'm doing right now," he said. "Does Tom Cruise have to be all that? I could never be an actor."
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