There Are Some Really Good People In The World

Yesterday The Blaze posted an article about three students in New York who purchased a couch from the Salvation Army for their apartment. The couch was not particularly attractive, but it fit the space in their apartment.

As they were trying out the couch, they found a plastic envelope of money under one arm. At that point they began searching the couch.

The article reports what happened next:

After twenty minutes, the trio had uncovered $40,000 in cash. On one of those envelopes contained a woman’s name.

“We had a lot of moral discussions about the money,” Russo told the Rebellion. “We all agreed that we had to bring the money back to whoever it belonged to… it’s their money– we didn’t earn it. However, there were a lot of gray areas we had to consider.”

After each of the students spoke with their parents, they decided to attempt to reach the woman named on the envelope. Werkhoven’s mom found her number in a phone book and the group gave her a call. She answered.

“Oh, I left a lot of money in that couch,” the unidentified woman said.

The story continues:

“When we handed the money back to the woman, she told us that she felt like her husband was present in the room with us,” Guasti told the Rebellion.

The woman told the Rebellion that her husband gave her money each week before he passed away and she had hidden it inside the couch. However, when she had an operation on her back and was away for several months, her daughter sold the couch and replaced it with a full-size bed, following a doctor’s advice.

There are a few lessons to be learned from this story. The first is don’t sell your mother’s couch without asking. The second is that there are honest people in the world.

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