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Cathy McAllister after retirement had devoted his time to a non-profit organization. She liked to read books and organized organization to organize an event in which the books were sold at an affordable price and that the accumulated money was used for charitable purposes. Cathy had the responsibility of most of the performing tasks. It was all in sorting the books she crosses a worn book. It opens it from the verification of the in-depth verification. It was then she finds a carved hollow inside the book with a knife. The purpose of this law would put you in disbelief.

Book donations

There are many organizations around the world that accept donations of books with clothes. And the volunteer of the included non-profit service association concerns one of them. The Organization based in Pheonix, Arizona has hundreds of its volunteers demanding donations and receiving more than 600,000 pounds in donations. Some people call Vnsa "the largest charity sale used in the southwest".

Event in February

After the organization has made many books, the institution forms a group of 130 volunteers who sort through the books and make a price on them. Subsequently, they prepare them for the big event that occurs every February. Cathy McAllister is a former teacher who helps prepare books for the sale of February.

Cathy McAllister

Cathy loves a lot of books. She had freshly retired as a school teacher and actively participates in the events organized by Service Association Service Volunteer Inc. Her favorite in all is the event concerned by the book. She regularly participates in that.

What people say

The Facebook page for reading the sale of used books, "VNSA is unique among the valley charities in this is a fully volunteer organization without paid employees." "The over 100 members of the VNSA work all year round, sorting, sorting, pricing and boxing of books and the preparation of all the details of the annual sale of the book."

Worth selling books

So what kind of books do they look for? McAllister explains: "We are always looking for a book that we can sell," and we do not keep everything. Sometimes we get several copies of a book; Sometimes it's a book that does not sell. "

Labor officer

Cathy shoulders a lot of the responsibilities of the event. Among many responsibilities, one is the coordination of volunteers. She had to make sure that volunteers do their job effectively.

All beneficial

The event is made to provide buyers with affordable books and to send funds collected to local charities, such as Friends of Arizona from Foster Children Foundation and Literacy Volunteers Maricopa County. Cathy loved this and this time too she could not help but volunteer again.

Not just a show

The woman does not receive a single minute for herself when the arrangements of the show start. She even stops going home and spends only his days in the warehouse. She has a deep affection for the show and does everything in her power to make a great success.

A book

As usual, she slid through the pile of books when her hands get a bookmark of a book entitled "The decline and the fall of the Roman Empire", by Edward Gibbon. Not to mention it was a used version of the book.

Take a hit

With the exception of the faded color of the cover, the book was in a readable state. Apart from this one, Cathy had his hand in three of these books, but all were in better condition that it. Obviously, the book was about to be subjected to reuse. She included it in the "reusing" stack.

In-depth inspection

Itself was a big library worm and therefore knew the importance of a good book. But before putting it in the collection, she decided to inspect it to confirm that the book was good. She opened the book without expecting what was kept inside the pages.

Eviding

Cathy had not imagined that the book she held was not just a book, but also keeping a secret. As soon as she opened the blanket, she realized that there was a hollow part of the book that seems to hide something.

Hole was made

Apparently, someone had done the hole with the help of a knife. The hole was carved on a specific space. The hole was carved to store something inside.

No words

McAllister remembered: "I was totally stunned." "Really, I was unable to find words. There were people in the category next to the speaking mine. I just took the open book and interrupted the conversation until I could say, "Look what I found!" "She added.

No ordinary book

Cathy had no idea that the book she had in her hands was nothing ordinary. She explained to Bookstr, "I had the book in my hands." She was all set up to launch the book in the "Repulping". However, she could not.

Not in bad shape

She said, "I thought," Well, it's not too bad. I'm just checking. Sometimes our books are smoking, and I turn them off to see if they feel - in which case we would have been cutting them. "But was she wasting his time? She will soon discover.

Sculpted deliberately

She explained: "I was ready to throw it because we had several copies ... but when I was safe from this book, there is a big hole engraved in the book among the pages. .. "And soon she thought that the thing hidden in the hole looked a lot like invoices.

Real money

Money inside a hole? Well, he is very unlikely, so it is very unlikely that she took her monopolistic money. Maybe a child had kept them inside the book. Most likely, it was a kind of trick that children played. She took the money out only to get the biggest surprise of her life.

Monopoly

It was not monopolistic money. It was a real money zone. Cathy actually had $ 100 tickets in his hand. Everything seemed like a dream of her. Someone had hidden real money in the book, then abandoned him. What was the purpose?

Ribbed

Cathy looked inside and found four packages. For strange reasons, parcels have been banded in the same way as banks do it when we remove money. It was not the only surprising party, each of the four packages had ten invoices of $ 100.

Four packs

Someone had actually hidden $ 4,000 inside the book entitled "The decline and the fall of the Roman Empire". But why a book? And who did it? The discovery had given birth to a number of questions.

Every four

Each of the four packages had 100 dollar bills. It took it for a while to get out of his surprising state and when his senses returned to him, she wondered if the real owner wanted money.

Against the principles

Cathy then explained: "Wow. It's enough money to finance extra charity." However, she soon disappeared with this notion. She had no intention of keeping money to herself as she was against her principles.

What she believes in

Its values ​​were great. She continued, "My values ​​were founded in our faith." But how was she going to find the owner? Although they say "where is a will, there is always a way."

Respectable values

Not for once, she thought of keeping money to herself. She said, "The church taught us what was right and wrong. It just becomes who you are after a while."

Owner search

Cathy had to find the owner. There was no way she would keep the money. Who knows, if the owner always looking for money. It must have been so painful for him / her to lose such a lot of money.

A letter

The woman had her stars on his side. Maybe that's why she managed to find the owner of money so easily. She did not even have to make efforts. By sifting in the book, she met a letter sent to the owner's spouse and children. And with that, the letter also had the name of his former owner on it.

An address label

McAllister said: "When I looked inside the book's jacket, the book owner - I hoped - had put a small address label." "And he had a rather unusual surname. I started working on the internet and, in the ten minutes, I had found the family."

What was in

The letter was only on this group of silver hidden only. The letter was more an instruction. The owner of the money had charged his wife and children to distribute the money between them.

Unique name

In addition, the former owner had a very different surname. So, find the owner would not be a very difficult task. Like any other person, she took to social media to look for the person. Fortunately, she managed to find the person. The owner was an old man.

Living around

Fortunately for her and the family, the owner and her family lived nearby. He said, "Several times, we assume that they are books of a succession" "that the owner is probably dead and his family eliminated the book." Well, it was certainly not the case in this case.

A message

She contacted the owner by greeting him. She told the whole incident how she found the money inside the book and the letter that helped him to know the owner. After that, she waited for the person to answer. The woman wondered how was he going to react to his revelation.

Unbelievable

Surprisingly, the man had no idea of ​​this money. He had forgotten it a long time ago. However, this is not convinced that a person forgets an amount as considerable.

The meeting

As the owner became old enough, he was unable to meet the Cathy. His son-in-law has decided to meet the woman and make all the necessary arrangements to collect the money of the woman.

Confrontation

Cathy remembered: "It was a bit surprising because this gentleman fell with his adult daughter and she said now that you can slap him" and I said, "No, it's your job." The family was unique in itself.

Surprise

The discovery was as surprising for the family it was in Cathy. They had never been informed of the book and money hidden inside. Initially, they felt like someone pulled a joke on them, but when they saw the letter they knew it was their father.

Money in another book

McAllister added that after obtaining the news, the owner's daughter asked the old man if he had spread in any other book. McAllister believes that the family would have crossed every book kept in the room to check if one of them had hidden money.

Book only?

McAllister said: "I think the children of [donors] were a little stubborn, and they asked him," Have you done that in another book? "I invited them to go down to our pre-sale before the public sees the books [in case], they wanted to identify any other book that it could have done [anything in]."

The meeting

Cathy would have invited the family on his place but herself remained outside the warehouse because of the approach approaching. The woman felt good and satisfied after contacting the family concerned.

The most amazing way

The family too could not thank it sufficiently for its kind of kind. Very few people go the extra mile to help others. And the family has shown its gratitude in the most amazing way. They donated a large part of the money found to the Non-Profit Voluntary Services Association. In no time, this heart touching history has become viral.

Night star

Cathy and his incredible story hit the titles soon. She was everywhere on news channels and papers. The woman who had spent most of her life quiet had now flooded glory and admiration.

She answered

WHEREAS some positions were all about appreciation and admiration, there wanted to know more about it. One of them asked him why she did not keep the money to herself, at which Cathy answered: "I do not know how you would sleep at night."

The sale begins

The annual sale of the VNSA book began on February 9, 2019. Volunteers were eager to discover the customer's response once they learn to know the history of Cathy. Most likely, they would start looking for money hidden from each book.

Nothing unusual

However, nothing happened as planned. Although each individual is overwhelmed by the altruistic act of the woman, none of them bothering to check the cash-in-case books. Cathy explained, "I do not think anyone else will find $ 4,000 in a book. But books are a great gift, with or without $ 4000. "

Success

As for the sale, it turned out to be a huge success. More than 13,000 people gathered to become part of the event in February 2019. It was because of this fantastic number they managed to collect $ 400,000. And as expected, all the money was abandoned to charity.

Helped a lot

Adrianeanne Morey expressed her feelings: "Thanks to this sale, I had $ 100 + children's books to store my waiting room on my viewing center." "A wonderfully diverse group of books, hopefully, children and adults interact when they wait for an eye exam. I love, I love, like this sale every year!"

VNSA imported

This incredible non-profit voluntary association came into effect about 63 years ago. The organization aims to increase enough funds to donate to community programs. The VNSA in 1949 was taken in 1949. Since then, the show has gathered many loyal customers who appear every year to buy books.

VNSA, sale of books in 1957

The organization said: "The dollars given to community programs have increased considerably over the years. Since the first sale of VNSA books in 1957, VNSA has returned more than $ 5,300,000 to local non-profit human service agencies in our community. "

Not in vain

These sales did not disappear in vain. Since 1987, the charity manufactured by the organization has helped some local charities, volunteers from the Children's Foundation of Maricopa and Arizona de Fount Children.

The real message

What appeared to be a book that deserves to be thrown into the trash turned out to be a carrier of a secret that would have gone unnoticed if Cathy is not careful of opening the book. Have you ever encountered an incident as odd as this one?