BATON ROUGE — A woman spent $100 on a dresser at a local thrift store, but what she found inside turned out to be priceless.

When Michelle Morgan thrifted the dresser from Joseph’s Storehouse in Baton Rouge, she had no idea it held a piece of someone’s history until she got home.

“I was just checking the drawers after we had moved it and opened the bottom drawer and found this box in the bottom drawer,” Morgan said.

Inside the box, carefully packaged, was a robe and a nightgown with a handwritten note taped to the top.

The message read: “This gown and robe were part of my honeymoon clothes. John and I went to Ruidoso after the ceremony, Saturday, April 10, 1954.”

Morgan said she immediately realized how special the discovery was.

“I love to hear stories behind things. And so w

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