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Woman Can Buy Her Home Thanks to the Honesty of a Stranger

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18 Jan 2014 40 views
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Woman Can Buy Her Home Thanks to the Honesty of a Stranger
On January 10, a Portland woman dropped in a store parking lot an envelope containing $2,000 in cash and a $38,000 cashier's check. It was the down payment she needed for a house. Lucky for her, Brian DiCarlo, a 23-year-old aspiring teacher, found the envelope.

On Friday, Jan. 10, a Portland woman lost an envelope containing $2,000 in cash and a $38,000 cashier's check. It was the down payment she needed for a house.

She dropped it on the pavement of a parking lot in front of a Safeway store in Clackamas.

Lucky for her, Brian DiCarlo, a 23-year-old aspiring teacher, found the envelope.

"I never really had the ‘I could keep this' thought," he said.

 

(READ the story from KATU News)

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