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« on: Apr 2^nd, 2004, 12:38pm »

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COWICHE, Wash. Anjanette Hewitt couldn't get comfortable. Something in the little pillow under her head was bugging her.
That something turned out to be a 14-year-old cashier's check for $2,000.

Tiffiany Grigsby, who lives in this small town northwest of Yakima, told the Yakima Herald-Republic she paid $1.99 for the heart-shaped pillow Saturday at a Value Village thrift outlet in Seattle before heading home with her mother, 7-year-old daughter and Hewitt, her sister.

Near Snoqualmie Pass, Hewitt, a Seattle hairdresser, rested her head on the pillow to catch a snooze in the back seat.

"She said, 'There's something in here,"' said Grigsby, 33, a state financial worker. "I tried to ignore her. She's always joking with me."

Hewitt turned the pillow over, unzipped the cover, and found a plain white envelope which she promptly opened.

"She said, 'It's a cashier's check for $2,000!"' Grigsby said. "I'm still ignoring her, thinking she's pulling my leg. That's when Mom says, 'No, it really is!"'

The mint-condition check, dated Feb. 9, 1990, was from Mrs. Tom Sdrales to Vicky Sdrales through Valley Bank & Trust Co. in Salt Lake City.

On Monday, after using her computer to locate a telephone listing for Tom Sdrales in Sandy, Utah, Grigsby called and spoke with Tena Sdrales, 75, who sent the check to help Vicky, her daughter, get established after a move to Issaquah in the suburbs east of Seattle.

"I'd just moved, I had no banking. I kind of stuffed it in the mattress, so to speak," said Vicky Sdrales Walker, 47, now married with two children and living in Redmond. "I feel so embarrassed ... I haven't even told my husband."

She said she bought the pillow on a visit to Greece in 1985, kept it on her bed for years, then set it aside after she got married and decided to recycle it to Value Village during spring housecleaning not long before Grigsby's visit to Seattle.

Grigsby sent the check to her mother, who plans to resend it to Walker.

"It was fun to find," Grigsby said. "I'm glad my daughter was there, so I could share the lesson."

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