415Sent in by the subject, who wrote: "I was sitting alone at a pavement cafe in Paris as a student, exhausted from walking the streets and really alone as I didn't know a single person in that huge city when a bearded man offered to buy me a cup of coffee.

"After telling him I was alone he kept on saying in broken english "but to be alone, seule ma cherie, is to become richer and richer every day".

"I have never forgotten his face and would like to meet him one day to say how right he was!" Check out her photography blog here."