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Woman returns $97,000.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Billie Watts)(Brief article)
On December 4, 2008, Billie Watts was visiting a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In the restroom she found a tapestry bag hanging from a hook on one of the stall doors. Trying to discover some identification of the bag's owner, she proceeded to search through it, finding no identification, only a manila envelope with a picture of two women--and a neat stack of 97 $1,000 bills.
Hesitant to simply turn it in at the restaurant's counter for fear that someone other than its rightful owner might obtain it, she decided to take it home.
The 75-year-old woman confessed to USA Today that she did momentarily think about keeping the money. "Satan will tempt you," she said. "I have been having real bad teeth problems. I thought, 'I'll get my teeth fixed.'" She really knew, however, that the money "wasn't mine. I had no right to it. My mom and dad told me never to take anything that didn't belong to me."
Watts called the restaurant to report that she had found "something in the ...
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