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loginENCINITAS, Calif. — Jonny Blue, a 33-year-old physical therapist and avid surfer from Encinitas, was seriously bummed Friday night. So on Saturday morning Blue took a cardboard sign bearing the simple request — “Share your toilet paper†— and camped out on the corner of El Camino Real and Encinitas Boulevard.
“This guy came here and said he just ran out and was going to a bunch of stores and couldn’t find any,†Blue said as cars whizzed by. “Somebody had given me some toilet paper so I gave it to him. He was stoked.â€
“It just inspired me to remind people, listen, if you have a lot of something that probably means there are people who probably don’t have very much of it, because you took it all,†Blue said. “So sharing it is probably a good thing to keep in mind.â€
“I just want to encourage everyone to be better,†he said. “Difficult times can reveal us to ourselves and help us see ourselves more clearly.â€
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