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Default Money Filled Easter Eggs Accidentally Donated To Charity

From azcentral.com

The Salvation Army was on an unusual Easter egg hunt this weekend, desperately searching for the person who bought toys that a family mistakenly donated before realizing a deceased grandmother had stuffed them full of cash.

Thrift Store manager Paul Kolb said a woman came into the store this month looking for plastic Easter eggs that had been among her grandmother's possessions, which the family donated after she passed away in January.

The woman had kept only one of her grandmother's possessions: her diary.

After flipping through it, she found out too late what a special Easter her grandmother had planned.

"Grandmother was planning for the Easter egg hunt of hunts," Kolb said.

"The eggs this year were filled with cash instead of candy...
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