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Lost wallet from 1975 found 51 years later with birth certificate, $1 and Hamlet ticket inside

A wallet lost by a teenager in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1975 has been returned to its owner 51 years later after a carpenter discovered it hidden under floorboards during a home renovation. The brown leather wallet still contained a birth certificate, a student ID, a one-dollar bill and a ticket stub for a production of Hamlet, all preserved beneath the old flooring. Local news and national outlets like UPI.com and PEOPLE reported that the wallet’s owner, now in his 60s, was reunited with the long-lost item after the carpenter tracked him down through the documents inside. Read more details about it, as per the reports, here:

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