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How this woman found her diamond ring will restore your faith in the internet


Finding a ring in a car park might seem like it would be as rare as finding a diamond in the rough.

Just ask Shelley Wells, who lost her diamond ring in car park in Louisiana on Dec. 5.

But it wasn’t that hard for Shirley Ross, who stumbled upon a diamond ring in the same car par on the same day.

Shelley Wells lost her diamond ring in a JCPenney car park in Louisiana on Dec. 5. Photo: Facebook/Shelley Jenkins Wells
Shelley Wells lost her diamond ring in a JCPenney car park in Louisiana on Dec. 5. Photo: Facebook/Shelley Jenkins Wells

She noticed it as she was getting out of her car, and it was the one Wells had lost.

Thanks to Facebook, and chance, they connected.

Earlier that day, Wells took the ring off as she sat in her car.

She placed it in her lap to put on hand lotion and then got out of the car, forgetting it was there, according to local news station KTAL.

She got the ring last year as a 20th-anniversary gift from her husband.

Once she realized it was missing, she searched the car park but didn’t find it.

“That night I got into bed and I said, ‘OK, I’m going to post it on Facebook,'” Wells told KTAL.

She was hoping someone would spot it and return it to her. Her post went up at 10:19 p.m.

Ross almost brought the ring into the shop when she found it, but something told her it was her mission to find the owner.

“As I looked at the ring, I said, ‘No, I can’t, I must pursue this,’” Ross recalled.

“’I must find the owner of this ring.’”

One of the reasons Ross felt so compelled to keep the ring was that she’d been in this exact position before.

According to KTAL, she took off her wedding ring while parked in her car years ago.

Just like Wells, she was putting lotion on her hands and got out of her car, forgetting the ring was there. She never found the ring.

So, exactly one minute after Wells posted, at 10:20 p.m., Ross’s daughter posted something about the found ring on Facebook in an attempt to find the owner, according to KTAL.

Wells’s post was shared over 3,200 times, and she connected with Ross by Dec. 6.

Just three hours later, her ring was returned to her.

“Thank you to the most wonderful lady who saw it in the parking lot and was honest enough [to] turn it in!” she wrote on Facebook.

“I truly have been gifted a Christmas miracle!!”

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