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Aug 24, 2004

"The only reward of virtue is virtue." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

An Honest Cabbie

He makes $80 a day as a cab driver in New York. But on July 16, a passenger in Nestor Sulpico's cab left a backpack stuffed with black pearl jewelry worth $70,000! It was his chance to pay off his back rent, go to college and pay his overdue bills. Instead he decided to the "right thing" and returned the pearls to the owner. As it turns out, he regained his Filipino citizenship, the president of Philippines flew him in to give him an award, and a college in NY has given him a full college scholarship to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a nurse!