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New Yorker gets stolen wallet back after 40 years

A New Yorker recently got a stolen wallet back after 40 years.. quite an incredible tale in big, crowded city like NYC

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/02/20/missing-wallet-returned-to-ny-man-40-years-later/

Have you ever lost something on the streets of NYC? Better still has it ever made its way back to you?
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
That's so cute!
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
Impressive! So sweet.
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JenMac
JenMac 2yrs+
I lost a diamond necklace in a hotel in North Carolina last year. Not surprisingly, "no one saw it." I almost vomited over losing that.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@JenMac that's awful I can totally relate ..many years ago at a friends engagement party, I had way too many tequila shots and was a total mess.. that night I lost a big diamond ring of mum's. She didnt say anything to me but I still have regrets about that night..
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JenMac
JenMac 2yrs+
It always blows my mind that people can do that. I could never steal anyone's jewelry. It usually has some kind of emotional value to even add to the insult of taking someone else's belonging.
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
I lost a diamond necklace as well - I think I left it in a house where I lived in LA, but none of the roommates ever saw it. Of course. That or my lost passport.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@JenMac,BroadwayBK don't you feel violated when you lose something as valuable as a piece of jewelry?
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
@uptowngirl It is the worst...especially because there is nothing much you can do about it.
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JenMac
JenMac 2yrs+
@uptown: absolutely. I find it so much more offensive that someone wouldn't return jewelry than if it were anything else I left behind.
@Broadway: weird. I also lost my passport in the same year I lost the necklace. Except, I actually have no idea where my passport went. It literally disappeared.
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
@JenMac Same thing here - I had my passport, and then I didn't. And I'm not sure when exactly I stopped having it, so it's difficult to say which side of the country I lost it on. At least I lost it while still in the US. I replaced it, but my new one is so blank in comparison...
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ajadedidealist
ajadedidealist 2yrs+
This is almost as cute as that Doberman dog that got saved by dolphins in Florida! I've actually only ever seriously lost something in London. On my way to my Oxford interview (coming into London via Heathrow), I left my purse containing my passport, wallet, phone, "good luck" items, and all my money on the Baker Street Tube Stop. Luckily they picked it up and kept it for me when I returned, frantically, 5 minutes later...
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
@ajadedidealist Lucky! That is much cuter than any Doberman incidents...
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@BroadwayBK indeed ajadedidealist you are truly lucky to have got your stuff back in a city like London where crime is rampant.
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
@jadeidealist Yes, lucky girl.
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ajadedidealist
ajadedidealist 2yrs+
Good thing I kept my "good luck" items in my purse when I lost it! (And it seems to have worked - I got in, and spent three of the best years of my life there...and counting!)
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