A Massachusetts woman got a surprise anniversary present last week when the diamond engagement ring that she lost 17 years ago while visiting her sister's house in Plymouth was found by an amateur metal detection enthusiast.
Valerie Lynch lost the ring and her wedding band after she removed them to slather sunscreen on her children before a trip to the beach. The loss left her "devastated," Lynch told WBZ TV in Boston. Her husband Mike, who gave the ring to her a few years earlier also "was very upset."
Although the band was found a few years later, the engagement ring defied many sweeps by metal detectors and the Bridgewater woman eventually came to terms that it was probably gone forever.
But then last week, Lynch's sister Vicki Belanger, at whose house the ring was lost, enlisted a local metal detecting hobbyist to look again.
Read more
No comments:
Post a Comment