A jewel of a citizen returns valuable purse.Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards and jazz who is widely considered to be one of may have left his heart in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , but a Canadian tourist staying in "the city by the bay" recently left her purse in Sausalito. Toronto resident Shahla Ghannadian and her husband traveled to San Francisco for their daughter's wedding. Before flying home to Canada on March 26, the parents of the bride decided to see some of the Bay Area's tourist attractions. Among these was Sausalito--the quaint, artsy art·sy adj. art·si·er, art·si·est Informal Arty. , Marin County community across the Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco to Marin Co., W Calif.; built 1933–37. Its overall length is 9,266 ft (2,824 m); its main span across the strait, 4,200 ft (1,280 m), is one of the longest bridges in the world. Joseph B. . While there, the Ghannadians stopped for ice cream. Mrs. Ghannadian then gave her purse to her husband, perhaps not wanting to dribble mocha Mocha (mō`kə), town (1990 est. pop. 2,000), S Yemen, a port on the Red Sea. It was noted for the export of the coffee to which it gave its name but declined as a trading port in the late 19th cent. with the rise of Hodeida and Aden. almond fudge or pralines 'n' cream all over it. Mrs. Ghannadian's purse was a designer Louis Vuitton The Louis Vuitton Company (more commonly known simply as Louis Vuitton) is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company, headquartered in Paris, France. It is a division of the French holding company, LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy S.A. handbag worth two thousand dollars--and its contents were even more extravagant. Inside the lavish bag were a Cartier watch, about $500 in U.S. and Canadian currency, and a large amount of jewelry that Mrs. Ghannadian and her daughter had worn for the wedding ceremony. Among the jewels were emeralds, pearls, and diamonds--one of them weighing 12 carats. In all, the handbag's contents were worth an estimated one million dollars! Amazingly, Mr. Ghannadian absentmindedly forgot his wife's fortune-containing handbag on a Sausalito park bench, and the couple did not miss it until they got back to their San Francisco hotel. They called family members, who went to the bench, but the handbag was gone. "My mom started crying," the Ghannadians' son, Ali, told the Marin Independent Journal The Marin Independent Journal is the main newspaper of Marin County, California. The Marin IJ has over 93,000 readers from its daily circulation of 35,000.[1] The paper reaches 47% of Marin County adults. . "We had the perfect wedding, the perfect weekend, up until a few hours before departure." Sausalito police officers were pessimistic that someone would return the expensive purse and its very valuable contents. But they underestimated the goodness that still exists in America. The next day, John Suhrhoff of nearby San Rafael brought the handbag into the police station. It still contained all the cash and jewelry. Though Mr. Suhrhoff thought the jewels were costume jewelry, the bag and cash alone were valuable enough to tempt a less honest individual. "You have to be a real man to return that bag," Ali Ghannadian told the Marin Independent Journal. "Even the bag is expensive. We're really, really thankful to that guy." |
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