CLACKAMAS, Ore. - A Portland woman will be able to buy the home she saved for thanks to the honesty of a stranger. 
 
 The woman asked not to be identified. On Friday, Jan. 10, she lost an envelope containing $2,000 in cash and a $38,000 cashier’s check. It was the down payment she needed for a house. 
 
 She dropped in in the parking lot of the Safeway at Southeast 122nd and Sunnyside Road in Clackamas. 
 
 Brian DiCarlo, a 23-year-old aspiring teacher, found the envelope on the wet ground. 
 
 “It wasn’t dirty, it wasn’t all wet. She must have just dropped it. I must have been moments behind her,” said DiCarlo. 
 
 The owner of the cash says she searched frantically when she realized she’d dropped the precious envelope. 
 
 “I was so stunned and so stressed, I swear I was going to have a heart attack or a stroke,” she told KATU. 
 
 When DiCarlo realized what he’d found he called police. 
 
 “I never really had the ‘I could keep this’ thought,” he said. “I think I do believe that at the time I was the exact person who needed to be there at that exact time to pick it up, because maybe someone else wouldn’t have done the same thing that I did.” 
 
 The owner is very thankful for DiCarlo’s honesty. She gave him $300 as a reward. 
 
 “Just to hear what it meant to her was enough reward for me to do it,” said DiCarlo. 
 
 He received a phone call from the grateful owner and a note. 
 
 “She was emotional and she was saying I would never know what this truly meant to her,” said DiCarlo. 

 A woman dropped a very important envelope in a grocery store parking lot. Fortunately for her, it was found by a very honest man. 
 
 The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said Sharon Davis, 71, of Portland, was at the Safeway store at Southeast 122nd and Sunnyside Road in Clackamas on Jan. 10. 
 
 She was carrying an envelope that contained $2,000 in cash and a $38,000 cashier's check. It also had paperwork for a home she was in the process of purchasing. 
 
 At some point as she walked through the parking lot, she lost the envelope. 
 
 Deputies said Davis didn't realize it until she returned to her car after getting a cup of coffee at Starbucks. She frantically began searching the area and asked local shops if anyone had turned it in. 
 
 Davis also contacted the sheriff's office. 
 
 It turns out a man named Brian DiCarlo found the envelope, looked inside and realized it was full of money. 
 
 "My first thought is that this person, whoever it is, is a wreck, and they are probably losing their mind trying to retrace their steps," said DiCarlo. 
 
 Deputies said DiCarlo called the non-emergency Clackamas County Sheriff's Office hotline to report what he found and then turned over the envelope and its contents to authorities. 
 
 "As it turned out, she was putting a down payment down on a house, and this was all for that stuff," said DiCarlo. 
 
 "If she loses it she can't do what she was hoping to do, and I guess I would have hoped someone would have done it for me," he said. 
 
 Working from the paperwork in the envelope, deputies tracked down Davis, who was still searching the parking lot, and returned her missing money. 
 
 DiCarlo later got an emotional call from the woman, who thanked him profusely. 
 
 "What a good and amazing man," Davis said of DiCarlo. 
 
 "I'm just glad I was in the right place at the right time," said DiCarlo. 
 
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– At the very least, it would have been an easy $2,000. That's how much cash was in the envelope that 23-year-old Brian DiCarlo found in a strip-mall parking lot in Clackamas, Oregon, reports KATU-TV. It also had a cashier's check for $38,000, money for a house down payment by the woman who had dropped it (and was going crazy trying to find it). Luckily for Sharon Davis, DiCarlo turned the money into police, and they were able to track her down, reports KPTV-TV. "This is all for her stuff," says DiCarlo. "If she loses it, I mean, she can’t do what she was hoping to do and so I would have hoped that someone would have done it for me." Davis gave him a $300 reward for his honesty. “I was so stunned and so stressed, I swear I was going to have a heart attack or a stroke," she says.