A California man received an unexpected blast from the past after a stranger discovered his 43-year-old college report card tucked inside a vintage copy of Steve Nicks’ Bella Donna album—purchased hundreds of miles away from where he originally traded it in.

Brinke Guthrie, a longtime radio professional from the San Francisco Bay Area, said he was stunned when a man messaged him on Instagram earlier this month, after finding a University of Cincinnati report card from spring quarter 1982 inside a vinyl record his girlfriend had purchased at a pop-up record sale in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

In a post on Threads , Guthrie shared the unexpected story where it has gained hundreds of likes.

“I got a DM from a guy on Instagram. It seems he bought a vinyl promo copy of the 1981 Steve Ni

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