A retired Michigan autoworker looked at a Facebook message after midnight from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet years ago?

“If so,” a Minnesota man wrote, “it was in the engine bay of a car.”

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Richard Guilford couldn't believe what he was reading on his phone — a decade-old mystery was remarkably solved.

Guilford's tri-fold leather wallet — stuffed with $15, a driver's license, work ID, $275 worth of gift cards from Cabela's and Outback Steakhouse, and lottery tickets — had turned up under the hood of a car in a repair shop in Lake Crystal, Minnesota.

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