Finding my friend's wallet in a random neighborhood

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I was invited by some friends to go to some sort of dance competition event our friend hosted at a high school in an area somewhere in Los Angeles that I'm not familiar and I would have to look it up to find it again. We parked in a residential area, and it was not well-lit. My friends found a wallet on the ground and I saw that they were trying to contact the person on Facebook to get the wallet back to him. I looked at the driver's license and saw that it was a friend of mine (at the time more of an acquaintance introduced to me by a good friend), so I contacted him to tell him we found his wallet. My friend lives in San Diego and came up to check out the competition. I don't think it's a big deal when I run into people in public coincidently, but my friends finding a wallet in the dark and it happened to be a person I know is kind of random.
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Date submitted:Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:02:05 +0000Coincidence ID:10858