Visitor Is Out $2,000 and Out of Work, but the Kindness of Strangers in Redlands Gives Her Hope

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Call it good old Southern California hospitality. "I was at work one day and I got an (instant message) from someone I didn't know who asked me how to get to Redlands from (Los Angeles International Airport)," recalled Molly Latour.

The mystery messenger was a friend of 21-year-old Sofia Pasternak. When the message was sent, Pasternak, a Russian college student, was in Paris. She was en route from St. Petersburg to the United States to work in the Pharaoh's Lost Kingdom midway for the summer.

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Visitor Is Out $2,000 and Out of Work, but the Kindness of Strangers in Redlands Gives Her Hope

Pasternak says that, in addition to $1,000 in airfare, she paid $1,000 to the Russian agency that helped get her a job in the United States.

"They had an independent program where you can find a job yourself, but I didn't want t...

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