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When a Brooklyn woman accidentally threw away her engagement ring—a century-old family heirloom once hidden in her great-grandmother-in-law's mouth to escape the Soviet Union—her husband refused to let it go. He dove into 20,000 pounds of garbage and, with help from a kindhearted sanitation worker, found it.
When Ilona Bannister lost her grandmother's precious Ukrainian medallion in an Uber, she thought it was gone forever. A thoughtful driver went out of his way to reunite her with the irreplaceable keepsake.
A Pennsylvania woman's irreplaceable family heirloom disappeared at the pool. Months later, her neighbor discovered it stuck in his shoe after a Florida vacation.