Sometimes life throws a curve ball or a difficult situation in our path.
Diane Gordon, a resident of Michigan, had been walking nearly three miles to and from work five days a week since her car broke down in February last year.
It wasn’t ideal, but that was the situation Diane found herself and being the hardworking woman she is she knew she still had to find a way to get to work.
Walking was tough, especially during the cold winter months but Diane never complained.
Thankfully, a recent act of kindness was about to completely turn her luck around.
Diane shared with FOX affiliate WJBK that on January 21, while she was walking home and stopped at a gas station for a snack, she noticed something unusual on the ground.
“I looked down on the ground and found a plastic bag with a large sum of money in it,” she said.
“When you turned it over, there was even more money.”
Diane, a grandmother of two, didn’t hesitate about what to do next.
“This doesn’t belong to me, I need to call a police officer,” she thought to herself after discovering the $14,780 in cash.
Thankfully, it didn’t take long to identify the rightful owners of the money.
When the police arrived, they found cards addressed to a couple who had just celebrated their wedding that day.
“There were wedding cards with a name on it, and we were able to get the money back to them,” Police Chief Dan Keller of the White Lake Township Police Department told The Washington Post.
Keller praised Diane’s honesty, saying, “She didn’t hesitate; she didn’t question it. This doesn’t happen very often, that someone finds a large sum of money and turns it in.”
It was at that moment that people started to question whether they would have done the same thing if they were in Diane’s shoes.
Diane, however, didn’t think she did anything extraordinary.
“All I did was return something that didn’t belong to me,” she humbly told the Post.
But there was one person who thought Diane’s act was indeed special — Stacy Connell, whose husband is a police officer who responded to Diane’s call.
Connell set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for Diane, hoping to collect enough to help her buy a new vehicle.
The campaign was a huge success, raising over $66,000 by Tuesday afternoon.
On February 3, Diane received her new ride: a green Jeep Compass from a local car dealership, Szott Auto Group.
“I am floored,” Diane told ABC affiliate WXYZ.
“I am having a hard time keeping it in. I am just so excited.”
Diane is absolutely in love with her new car, which comes with features she’s never had before, like a steering wheel warmer and a backup camera.
She plans to pay it forward by offering rides to her co-workers who need them.
“I’ll give them a ride home and pay it forward,” she said.
Not everyone would be so selfless and do the right thing but Diane didn’t think twice about it.
The moment she saw the money, she knew what needed to be done.
Learn more about Diane and the unforgettable situation she found herself in in the video below.
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