A woman who dropped a hundred dollar bill somewhere near a food cart at East 58th St. and Lexington had the money returned to her! The Daily News reports that an unidentified man found the bill on the sidewalk Monday and gave it to Egyptian immigrant food cart operator Emad Youssef. The vendor then turned it over to Rochelle Meyers, his distraught customer, when she returned the next day. Myers, an infertility clinic administrator from Jersey, needed the money for a new cell phone. “[Youssef] really restored my faith in human beings,” she tells the News. Youssef declares, “I'm Christian. In my religion, if I take somebody's money, it's haram [forbidden]. If I find any money and don't find the person, I give [it] to police."
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