Sure, we’ve seen people find things years later, sometimes in the strangest places. Tidying up a guest room or garage can bring out long-forgotten treasures. Jewellery in particular seems to be something that is lost. People have found earrings under refrigerators, rings stuck in the tread under shoes, and the list goes on.
13 years later, a carrot caused quite a surprise for a woman!
84-year-old Mary Grams from Canada lost her diamond engagement ring 20 years ago while weeding on her family’s farm in Alberta. For over a decade, she kept the loss a secret from everyone except her son. She thought the ring was lost forever, forgot about it completely, and moved on with her life.
Colleen Daley, Mary’s daughter-in-law, harvested carrots from the exact same spot where they had been working all these years and pulled out a rather gnarly-looking carrot. It was then that she discovered her mother-in-law’s secret – a diamond ring. The carrot had grown through the middle of the ring, so that the two could be picked together directly from the earth.
The lost engagement ring on a knotted carrot
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She was embarrassed to tell her husband, but only her son knew about the lost engagement ring
Mary was too embarrassed to tell her husband what had happened all those years ago, so she bought a cheaper replacement, hoping he wouldn’t notice. She carried on as if nothing had happened. At some point, she even forgot about the incident that had happened all those years ago. “Maybe I did the wrong thing, but you get so upset,” she said.
No one would have been wiser if Colleen hadn’t
picked some carrots for dinner Colleen Daley, who now lives on the farm where Mrs. Grams lived, was in the middle of harvesting vegetables for dinner when she spotted the ring while washing a lumpy carrot. Her husband knew it was the ring his mother had lost all those years ago. He immediately called her, shocked and excited.
Reflecting on the lost engagement ring and its discovery
Mary with her lost engagement ring
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Mary said she wished she had told her husband about what had happened to her engagement ring all those years ago, as he died eight years before they found the ring. He was a joker and would probably have found the whole situation funny. Now that she’s back home, she vows to be more careful and keep them safe. « When I go outside or something, I’m going to keep it in a safe place. I should have done that,” she said.
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