Wow! There's got to be a way to find out............but then it might spoil one really cool gesture...........but I'd be going crazy trying to figure out why, who..................but then, so what, it was a wonderful thing to do...........but.......but.............

Geezzzzzz db! I've never had anything like that particular thing happen to me...........though I do remember a good samaritan in my mother's life.

I was pretty young at the time.....and mom and dad had split for the second time.....and mom was very prideful and would never ask dad for money.....so off we went to a pawn shop where she intended to sell her engagement ring (dad sent it from Germany while he was in the Army). While negotiating a price with the pawn broker, a stranger pulled on my mother's elbow and asked if he might speak with her for a moment. She was sceptical and grabbed my hand and we walked to the end of the counter. The man followed and nearly begged her to listen to him. She finally relented and they spoke in hushed tones near the door where I could see him hand her a card and she smiled and came to get me and we left the pawn shop. The man that spoke with her smiled at us as we were leaving and then stepped up to the counter to do his own business. It turns out he was a buyer of pawned/unclaimed items and he saw my mother's engagement ring and, without even knowing it's value at time of purchase, he knew the pawn broker was trying to cheat her. The card he gave her was for a jeweler friend of his and he instructed her to take the ring to him for a better value and to make sure to let the jeweler know she was sent by him. Mom received nearly four times the amount of money the pawn broker had offered.......and almost the actual current value of the ring! We never saw that man again......but I'll never forget him and what he did for my mother!

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