So, Sharon is 75 today and just as beautiful as when I met her. She worries too much about me and everyone and everything and not enough about herself. To her, a very happy birthday, and she probably won’t read this post, because she doesn’t read any of my posts. I will share this story anyway to tell you whom she is.
Many years ago, probably more than ten, when, during the time we were running away, we either bought or sold a place we were living. The law firm which did the closing kept some escrow money. Being us, we didn’t check the papers, probably went out to dinner or to a bar to celebrate and forgot.
Two days ago, a letter came in the mail with a check for $2,000. Sharon called the firm where she had worked as a paralegal to figure out what the check was for. Her former co-worker could not tell her exactly what transaction the money was from, except that they had lost our address and were going to send the money to the State as unclaimed funds and were giving it one more shot to find us.
They brought each other up to date on common friends and families and that was it; no big deal. Now what to do with the money?
In our house, we honor community property when it comes to found money. We each claimed a half share. Sharon promptly sent her half share to Magen David Adom where Michael Bloomberg is matching donations up to 44 million. https://afmda.org/news/bloomberg-gift/
I bought a bottle of champagne. Have not figured out what to do with the rest.
