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Change of heart?(The Goodness Of America)

The New American

| July 26, 2004 | Lee, Robert W. | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

On June 6, the day after Bob and Ann Cummings of Peculiar, Missouri, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at St. Sabina Catholic Church in Belton, Mrs. Cummings learned about an extraordinary, anonymous gift that someone had left during the previous day's festivities: her engagement ring that had been lost for 45 years.

As described by the Associated Press, her husband "had placed the ring on his 19year-old bride-to-be's finger at Christmas in 1954 while he was home on leave from Norfolk, Va., where he was stationed as a U.S. Navy seaman." The ring features a square-cut diamond with a smaller diamond on each side, set in platinum on a gold band. Mrs. Cummings had been resigned to never seeing it again, though she often thought about it especially, she says, during preparations for the recent anniversary party.

The young couple had just settled in Belton and started their family when the ring disappeared from the cupboard shelf on which Mrs. Cummings placed it when ...

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