AN HONEST RETURN
Pauline Nichter, 46, and her husband, Tom, 44, had both lost their jobs – she was a warehouse supervisor, he a warehouseman and were living in and out of motels with their 11-year-old son, Jason. They were in danger of losing their car for failure to make payments on it. One day last winter, Pauline found a wallet containing a credit card, an airline ticket to New Zealand and $2,394 in cash at a shopping mall in the Los Angeles suburb of Buena Park. “For a second I thought about taking the money,” she said later. “But only for a second.” Instead, she delivered the wallet and its contents to the nearest police station, where the owner reclaimed them. Word of her honesty quickly got out, and a grateful community responded in kind. The Nichters received more than ten job offers and an apartment rent-free for six months. Others gave cash. One elderly couple walked into the police station where Pauline…
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