Hi Everyone!! So I have an amazing story I would like to share. It has deeply touched my heart, and everyone involved.
The other day my Fiancé and I found a wallet in the street. It contained $230, Medicare Cards, Credit Cards, Insurance Cards, Social Security Cards. Besides these things that were replaceable, there were black and white photos of the husband of who we assumed the wallet belonged to. We knew instantly that we had to return the wallet as they had so many personal items we knew must mean so much to someone. My initial thought was to mail the belongs to the address on the ID Card, but my Fiancé pointed out that it was a Miami address and they were just in the Central Florida area just a couple days ago (according to the receipts we found in the wallet). When we got home we decided to google the address. Sure enough, the address had recently been sold this past June. We proceeded to call the BJ's card and provide them with the membership number in an attempt to either retrieve the woman's phone number or provide them with our number so she can call us back. Unfortunately, the phone number they had on file was inactive. My Fiancé decided to call a phone number on a business card, which happened to belong to the wallet owners husband's Urologist. We were finally able to retrieve her number; my Fiancé called her to let her know we had her wallet. She instantly started to cry, she had no idea her wallet was even lost to begin with!!! We drove over to her home which happened to be 15 minutes away from us. She told us that her husband recently passed away in January 2016 and she just moved to Mount Dora to live with her Daughter. She is an 80 year old woman, and had met and been with her husband since she was 14 years old! Her husband knew he was terminal and gave his wallet to her with his personal belongings in it. I'm so happy we found her wallet the same day she lost it and did not have to endure the heartbreak of knowing she lost the wallet. She also told us that she looks through it every night before she goes to sleep, which made me even more happy that we were able to bring it back to her in such a short period of time!! It was a blessing for us to find it.
We met her daughter and son in law and were able to spend over an hour with this beautiful family! The positivity we felt once we left their home was unbelievable. The following day we received calls from her son in Texas and her cousin in California just to thank us for our kindness. I think their gratefulness meant more to us than what we did for them.
