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OGDEN — Devan Ferguson said she never thought she’d see her wallet — or the vacation money that was inside — ever again.
Ferguson was making her way from Boise, Idaho, to Houston when she and her husband made a stop in Ogden to visit his parents over the weekend. After the visit they stopped at Walmart before they hit the road, and that’s were her wallet got left behind.
“I cried for hours," Ferguson said. "There was so much money in my wallet."
But Ferguson got lucky when Nathan Poulsen found the wallet in a shopping cart in the parking lot.
“I lifted my son in and that’s when I noticed it over in the corner,” Poulsen said.
He thought the owner would come right back to retrieve the wallet, so he waited in the parking lot.
“I sat in the car for about 45 minutes waiting for (the owner) and when nobody came back I opened up the wallet and notice a lot of cash in it,” Poulsen said.
Poulsen said he didn't feel comfortable turning it in to the store. He was unsure that any effort would be made to find the owner.
“You just don’t know, and the unknown is what I didn’t like," he said. "I wanted to make sure it was myself who handed the money over."
But finding the wallet’s owner wasn't an easy process.
“If it was a local address, I would have just drove it over to their home, but they were out of state,” he said.
The wallet had no contact numbers inside, so Poulsen turned to Facebook. He found Ferguson, matched her profile picture to her ID and then spent two days sending her messages.
Poulsen said the time that he spent finding Ferguson was “no big deal,” but it was a big deal to Ferguson.
“I was so excited. I was so happy. I just want to tell him thank you — so much,” Ferguson said. “I’m glad there’s still a few honest people out there in the world.”
