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As it turned out, she got off the plane in Nashville, stayed in the airport until authorities kicked her out and then roamed the streets for years, relatives said.

"A week of homelessness turned into a month, and a month into a year, and she just spiraled down and down," Fred Perley told The Tennessean newspaper.

Her fortune started changing earlier this year when she was accused of causing a public disturbance and was sent to court.

Prosecutors agreed to move her case to mental health court, where a judge ordered her to see a psychiatrist. As a result, she began taking depression medication again and received temporary shelter. She even worked in a restaurant for a while until it closed about a month ago.

"She said this was the first winter in seven years she spent indoors," Shelby Perley said.

Mark Fishburn, the presiding judge at Davidson County's mental health court, said Perley was focused on finding a job and permanent housing.

Then she walked into Guess' office to inquire about her long-forgotten investment account.

Homeless woman, family reunited

Alice Perley had been living in Kentucky when her life fell apart, her brother said. She has a chemistry degree and spent 12 years working for AT&T, owned property and was fairly well off but had gone through a painful divorce. The family arranged for her to fly to Newark to visit relatives. She took the flight, but in an impulsive decision got off at the stopover in Nashville and ended up staying.

It could be that the medication that she was put on was starting to help a bit and she was able to start piecing her life back together. If she had remembered her name and maybe her birth date, the system could have found her and then a quick call to the person in charge of the account could have been made by the brokerage.

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Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men! What a wonderful story of coming home!