Found US passport with blue cover and gold seal
Description
I found a US passport this afternoon around 3:15pm in Lexington, in the parking lot behind the Fayette Mall off Nicholasville Road. It's a dark blue US passport with the gold seal, a bit worn at the corners—the kind of thing that clearly travels. The pages look intact and readable, but there's a small coffee stain on the back cover and a barcode sticker on the inside back cover. It obviously belongs to someone and I want to help reunite them with it; losing a passport is stressful, and this one seems recently used. If you recognize any detail here, reach out so the owner can get their documents back quickly.
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