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A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years
ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot
growing in her garden, media reported Saturday.
Lena
Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas
baking session with her daughters in 1995, but it had disappeared
from the kitchen counter where she placed it.
After looking
everywhere, and even pulling up floorboards in the search, Paahlsson
and her family, who live on a farm in northern Sweden, had given up
on seeing the ring again, she told the Dagens Nyheter
daily.
That was until October this year, when she was picking
the last carrots in her garden and suddenly found one with her ring
glimmering around it.
The family thinks the ring must have
fallen into the sink back in 1995 and been mixed with potato peels
that were composted or fed to the sheep, since all the soil in the
garden comes from composted vegetables and sheep dung.
The
ring no longer fits Paahlsson, but she told Dagens Nyheter she plans
to have it enlarged.
"I had given up hope. Now that I have
found the ring again ... I want to be able to use it," she said.
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