Poor Boy Found Millionaire’s Wallet And Made Him Cry With What He Asked In Return

An Unexpected Loss in a Foreign Land

Hector Sousa, a Mexican millionaire, lost his wallet full of cash while out with his daughter in a poor neighborhood. When a street urchin found it and returned it intact, he asked for an unusual reward, which brought the millionaire and his daughter to tears.

Hector Sousa was returning from a tourist trip to San Diego, California, on a ferry when he realized his wallet was no longer in his pants pocket. The man was a millionaire who had previously been interviewed by Forbes.

Hector Sousa was a philanthropist in addition to being a member of Mexico’s super-rich elite. Since the 1990s, he has invested in large retail chains while raising large sums of money to provide food, clothing, and medical care to people in his country and throughout Latin America who are in need.

That day, the millionaire was visiting a tourist attraction on America’s west coast with his daughter, Margarida Sousa, who had just turned eighteen. The girl had been to that country a few times with her father, but she had never spent enough time there to learn everything she desired.

She requested a celebration in the United States when she reached adulthood. Her father took a week off from work to accompany her.

The philanthropist called a friend who worked for a luxury hotel chain in California and explained the situation. The man planned the entire trip for the businessman and his daughter, Margarida.

The father and daughter had been in America for three days. They’d seen Disney, driven through Los Angeles, and were now in San Diego, where they’d just returned from Coronado Island and planned to visit the zoo or water park the next day.

Despite being a popular tourist destination in the area, Coronado had a poor neighborhood with a large Mexican population, and Hector wanted to get to know its streets and people. Margarida was upset that her father had planned a visit to the place for her birthday.

After all, she had no interest in poor neighborhoods in the United States, but the young lady put up with it to avoid any issues. It was summer, and the boat was packed with tourists.

Suspicion and Conflict

Father and daughter had already returned to the city via one of the routes. When the boat was approaching the port, Hector looked in his pocket for his wallet but couldn’t find it.

He searched other pockets, inquired if his daughter had seen it, and looked around. Margarida asked if it had been a while since he had used the wallet, and Hector replied that he had only used his money to purchase a souvenir while visiting the poor neighborhood on the island.

“I told you not to go there, father. You were obviously robbed,” Margarida retorted.

Hector corrected his daughter because he didn’t know if it had been stolen. He stated he may have misplaced his wallet somewhere, possibly on that boat packed with tourists from all over the world.

“Look at the people around us,” Margarida responded.

“Don’t you think they would have returned it by now if they had found it?” .

Hector only expressed his hope that whoever took or found his wallet would contact him and return it. Margarida had no idea, but it would soon have a significant impact on her life.

Hector Sousa has been back at the hotel for over two hours and has not received a call from anyone who has found his wallet. The tour boat staff also searched everywhere but found nothing.

They were concerned because the millionaire could sue the transportation company, but no one was more concerned than Margarida Sousa, the powerful man’s daughter. She knew that, in addition to cash, several credit cards in her father’s wallet were required for her long-awaited birthday celebration.

Margarida, concerned, stated that her father had most certainly been robbed while they were on the island.

“Don’t you realize, Dad, that these people take advantage of you?” .

“You went to that poor neighborhood with such good intentions, and they ended up making a fool of you,” she grumbled.

“You took me to a poor neighborhood for my birthday? Look at what we got out of it.” .

A Father’s Hard-Earned Wisdom

Hector took a deep breath and told Margarida that he loved her but that she needed to learn more about life. She was becoming a grown woman, but she still had a lot of life ahead of her.

“Do you believe my life has always been good and easy for me?” .

“I’ve been to the other side, girl,” the philanthropist said.

Hector reminded her that he was born in a poor neighborhood of Mexico City. His mother was a chef, and his father was a tailor.

Hector began working in a department store in the capital at the age of fourteen to help with household expenses. He could only study what he wanted when he was twenty-four.

At the time, he was a supervisor in the store. He told his daughter that he had to eat crow from bosses and clients to get to his current position.

He went on to say that he had taken many buses in his life to get to work every day, and that he couldn’t even eat breakfast sometimes. On occasion, he had to forego lunch.