90 year old Evelyn Weiner living in southwest Florida found an old film canister in her home. This contained 8mm film shot in the early 1940s in Connecticut with her family.
Family members insisted that she have the film converted to a newer digital format, so she dropped the film off at the local Walmart. From here it was shipped to a company called Yes Video’ in Georgia, to have it turned into a DVD.
What happened next was entirely unexpected.
A Yes Video employee found a hidden stash of money inside the canister, $3,100 in all, and made sure that the money was returned to her. Evelyn was totally surprised!
Evelyn says she can’t believe a stranger who could have quietly pocketed the money would make sure she got it back. “When you pick up the newspaper or watch the television, everybody’s bad, everybody steals,” she observes. “And here, somebody hands me money that I didn’t know was there.”
The money will help with her finances and her children’s, too. “It came at a very good time, as if my husband was still watching out for me,” she says.
So for Evelyn, not only do the memories have a new life, she says she has a renewed faith in the honesty of others.
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Credits: This is a CBS news video released on You-tube.
