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Goodwill employee returns $42,000 mistakenly donated among clothing.
While sorting through donated clothing, Oklahoma Goodwill employee Andrea Lessing made a remarkable discovery.
Wrapped between two sweaters were rubber-banned $100 bills totaling $42,000, the largest cash find in Oklahoma Goodwill history.
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Andrea knew what to do with the cash. She gave it to the store manager so Goodwill could return it to the owner.
When asked why she returned the money, she said it was about karma.
"I do believe that if you do something good, something good will come back to you," she told Oklahoma News 4.
Fortunately, there was paperwork locating the donor, who had mistakenly misplaced the money.
"Normally we have no way of knowing who the money belongs to," said Frank Holland, a Goodwill vice president.
A single mother of a 6-year-old girl, Andrea always strives to set a good example for her daughter and returned the money, with no expectation of a reward.
But the anonymous donor, through the Goodwill, gave her a surprise $1,000 reward, which Mr. Holland presented to her, and which Andrea tearfully and gratefully accepted.
Andrea has many uses for that money, and first and foremost among them will be to have a very special birthday party for her little girl.
Editor's Note: : To learn more, including a 2-minute, 15-second video of Andrea passiton.com/passiton-blog/40-goodwill-employee-find-42-000-in-donated
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