HONEST REWARD
On his way to a school bus stop with a friend, 12-year-old Evan Dobkin found a red wallet stuffed with $1,100 and 10 credit cards. His friends urged him to keep the money. But Evan turned over the wallet to a security guard at the townhomes where he lives. Susan Wilkinson, a tourist from Columbus, Ohio, had lost the wallet. “I was sick about it,” she said. “That was all the money I had.” Evan, a seventh grader, paid the price for being honest. “The kids on the bus called me stupid because they said I should have kept the money,” Evan said. “They just couldn’t understand why I had given the money back, and they teased me about it all day.” While Evan took the heat from his friends, Wilkinson and her husband were getting good news from the security guard. They were visiting their daughter in the same housing complex. “I was amazed, “Wilkinson said. “I couldn’t believe this little…
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